Muslim Resistance To The Tsar

This study offers a fresh insight into the Muslim Murid movement and its leader Shamil, a subject that generates constant controversy in Russian historiography and has often been misinterpreted by Western scholars. Much has been written about the Muslim Murid movement and its leader Shamil, who resisted the Tsarist Russian expansion into Chechan and Daghestan for more than quarter of a century. This study, based on research in multilingual archives, offers a fresh insight into this controversial subject.