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In quest for God and freedom : the Sufi response to the Russian advance in the North Caucasus
Author
Title
In quest for God and freedom : the Sufi response to the Russian advance in the North Caucasus / Anna Zelkina.
ISBN
9780814796955
Published
Washington Square, N.Y. : New York University Press, 2000.
Physical Description
xxiii, 265 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 08, 2016
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-259) and index.
Contents
Part I. People and Land
1. General Description of the North Caucasus 9
Geographical description of the North Caucasus 9
Ethnic and linguistic composition 10
2. The Social Structure and Political Make-up of the North Caucasus 14
System of rule and administration 17
3. The Economic Structure of North Caucasian Society 21
Part II. Islam and Muslim Institutions in the North Caucasus
4. Islam in Daghestan 26
The history of Islamisation 26
Arab-Muslim learning in Daghestan 30
5. Islam among the Vaynakh 33
Islamisation of the Vaynakh teips 33
Islam and Pre-Islamic beliefs 35
6. The Muslim Legal System and the Judicial Authorities 40
7. Sufism in the North Caucasus 47
Part III. The Russian Expansion and the Beginning of the Religious Revivial
8. The North Caucasus and Foreign Powers: The First Stage of Russian Expansion in the Area 52
9. Sheikh Mansour and the Beginning of the Muslim Reformist Movement 58
Military confrontation 63
10. The Russian Military Campaigns and Annexation of the North Caucasus 69
The Russian policy of colonisation 71
Part IV. Origins and Development of the Naqshbandiyya-Mujaddidiyya-Khalidiyya: Doctrine and Practices
11. The formation of the Main Principles of the Naqshbandi Tariqa 75
The early Naqshbandi silsila 77
Baha al-Din al-Naqshband and the final crystallisation of the tariqa 80
Political activisation of the Naqshbandi tariqa 82
12. The Development of Naqshbandi Principles and the Formation of the Mujaddidi Suborder 84
13. The Formation of the Naqshbandiyya-Mujaddidiyya-Khalidiyya Suborder 90
Khalid's elaboration of the Mujaddidi doctrine 92
The development of new characteristics of the Khalidiyya 94
The Khalidiyya after Khalid 96
Part V. Introduction of the Naqshbandiyya Mujaddidiyya-Khalidiyya to the North Caucasus: The Formative Period
14. Introduction of the Naqshbandi Order to Daghestan 100
Sheikh Isma'il al-Shirwani 100
The first steps of the Naqshbandiyya-Mujadidiyya-Khalidiyya in Daghestan 102
Muhammad al-Yaraghi's meeting with Sheikh Isma'il al-Shirwani 104
Muhammad al-Yaraghi's appeals in Daghestan 105
15. 'Spiritual' Naqshbandiyya and its Doctrine 108
Jamal al-Din al-Ghazi-Ghumuqi 108
Jamal al-Din's elucidation of the meaning of the tariqa 109
16. 'Political' Naqshbandiyya 116
Part VI. The First Naqshbandi Imams and the Beginning of Ghazavat
17. Diffusion of Naqshbandi Ideas in Chechnya: The Greater Chechnya Revolt (1825-6) 121
Russian policy 123
Beybulat Taymi 124
The ideological premises of the revolt 126
The beginning of the Greater Chechnya revolt 130
The aftermath 132
18. Ghazi Muhammd: The First Daghestani Imam and the Beginning of Ghazavat 135
Ghazi Muhammd: his life and education 136
Teaching of Ghazi Muhammad 138
Consolidation of power 141
The rise to power of the first Daghestani imam 143
The beginning of the ghazavat 145
The Khunzakh campaign and its aftermath 146
The first Russian encounter with Ghazi Muhammad 147
Ghazi Muhammad after Khunzakh 148
Ghazi Muhammad's military activities 152
Ghazi Muhammad's domestic policy 153
The establishment of the Naqshbandi network in Chechnya 154
The decline of Ghazi Muhammad's military power 156
The battle of Gimrah and Ghazi Muhammad's death 157
19. Hamza Bek: The Second Naqshbandi Imam 160
Hamza Bek: biography 160
The election of the second imam 162
The undertakings of the new imam 163
The death of the second imam 167
Part VII. Shamil: The Third Imam of the North Caucasus
20. The Naqshbandi Tariqa after the Assassination of Hamza Bek; the Rise of the Third Imam 169
Sheikh Shamil 170
Tashou Hajji al-Enderi 174
Fostering of Shamil's spiritual image 177
Consolidation of Shamil's power 178
The beginning of military confrontation 181
Negotiations between Shamil and the Russians 183
The Russian assault at Akhulgho 185
21. Resurrection of Shamil's Power 189
Shamil's rise to power in Chechnya 190
Consolidation of Shamil's authority in Daghestan 194
Shamil's aspirations in the Central and West Caucasus 197
Part VIII. The State of God: Its Creation, Peak and Decline
22. Shamil's Imamate 203
Religious and administrative officials in Shamil's imamate 204
Fiscal reform in the imamate 207
Military reform 209
Murtaziqas 211
Spiritual warfare and the tariqa murids 212
Shamil's legislative and judicial powers: shari'a and nizams 214
Nizams and the shari'a 217
Supplementary nizams 220
Challenges to Shamil's state 222
23. The Decline of Shamil's Power and the Fall of the Imamate 226
Internal decline 227
The fall of the imamate 230
Captivity and the last days of Imam Shamil 233
Epilogue: The Sufi Legacy in the North Caucasus 235.
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