Islam in the Caucasus

The Muslim-dominated region, the Caucasus region is also known as the Ciscaucasus, In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Northern Caucasus experienced an Islamic (as well as a National) Renaissance. Also radical and extremist streams of Islam started taking root, initially in western (upland) Daghestan. More than 90% of Muslims in Russia adhere to Sunni Islam of the Hanafi and Shafi'i schools. In a few areas, notably Dagestan, Chechnya and Ingushetia, there is a tradition of Sunni Sufism, which is represented by Qadiriyya, Naqshbandi and Shadhili orders. Naqshbandi–Shadhili spiritual master Said Afandi al-Chirkawi received hundreds of visitors daily.


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