Muslim resistance to the tsar
Subtitle: Shamil and the conquest of Chechnia and Daghestan
By: Moshe Gammer.
Publisher: F. Cass
Published: 1994
Place of publication: London; Portland, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 452
Subjects: Shāmil, Imām, 1798-1871; Muslims -- Russia (Federation) -- Caucasus, Northern -- Political activity
Description: Much has been written over the years about the Muslim 'Murid movement and its leader Shamil, who resisted the Tsarist Russian expansion into Chechan and Daghestan for more than a quarter of a century. This new study, based on painstaking research in multilingual archives, offers a fresh insight into a subject that generates constant controversy in Russian historiography and has often been misinterpreted by Western scholars.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 296-433) and index.