Muslim Resistance to the Tsar : Shamil and the Conquest of Chechnia and Daghestan

by Gammer, Moshe

• ISBN13: 9780714634319
• ISBN10: 071463431X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-04-01
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Table of Contents

Introduction : the Russian conquest of Transcaucasia	p. 1
The setting	p. 9
The theatre	p. 11
The people	p. 18
The Russians	p. 23
The background	p. 27
Ermolov	p. 29
The Naqshbandiyya-Khalidiyya	p. 39
The first two Imams	p. 47
The first Imam	p. 49
The second Imam	p. 60
Beginnings	p. 67
The third Imam	p. 69
Tiliq	p. 81
Akhulgoh	p. 96
'The rise of the phoenix'	p. 111
Chechnia	p. 113
Daghestan	p. 122
Ghazi-Ghumuq and Ichkeri	p. 130
To the peak	p. 137
Avaristan	p. 139
Darghiyya	p. 149
Ghabarta	p. 162
'The system of the axe'	p. 173
Lesser Chechnia	p. 175
Central Daghestan	p. 183
The south	p. 195
Greater Chechnia	p. 210
'The state of God'	p. 223
Shamil's state	p. 225
The ruler and the ruled	p. 236
The Imam and his neighbours	p. 248
Shamil and the powers	p. 257
The end	p. 265
The Crimean War	p. 267
Ghunib	p. 277
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