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At the same time, Chechnya under Moscow-backed authoritarian rule of Ramzan Kadyrov has undergone its own controversial counter-campaign of Islamization of the republic, with the government and the Spiritual Administration of the Muslims of the Chechen Republic actively promoting and enforcing their own version of a so-called "traditional Islam ...
Chechnya Diary: A War Correspondent's Story of Surviving the War in Chechnya. M E Sharpe (2003). ISBN 0-312-268-74-2. Hasanov, Zaur. The Man of the Mountains. ISBN 099304445X. Fact-based novel on growing influence of the radical Islam during 1st and 2nd Chechnya wars. Khan, Ali. "The Chechen Terror: The Play within the Play". Khlebnikov, Paul.
The Spiritual Administration of the Muslims of the Chechen Republic (Chechen: Нохчийн Республикин Бусалбан син урхалладар; Russian: Духовное управление мусульман Чеченской Республики) is the sole muftiate in Chechnya (Russian Federation).
The Chechen genocide [12] refers to the mass casualties suffered by the Chechen people since the beginning of the Chechen–Russian conflict in the 18th century. [13] [14] The term has no legal effect, [15] although the European Parliament recognized the 1944 forced deportation of the Chechens, which killed around a third of the total Chechen population, as an act of genocide in 2004. [16]
The Chechen Qadiri sheikh, Ali Mitayev, a "Communist-Islamist" who believed that Communism was compatible with Qadiri-Sunni Islam, set up a Chechen National Soviet. Mitayev shared the communist ideals of the Russian Bolsheviks in Groznyi, but insisted on Chechen national autonomy as well.
The mosque is located on the picturesque banks of the Sunzha River in the middle of a huge park (14 hectares) and is part of an Islamic architectural complex, which in addition to the mosque, consists of the Russian Islamic University, the Kunta-Haji, and the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the Republic of Chechnya.
Russia’s war, fought by many Muslims and poor people. ... Putin used the bombings as justification for the second Chechen war, which he won by leveling Grozny and terrorizing its citizens.
Kunta-Ḥājjī al-Iliskhānī (Kishiev) (Chechen: Киши КӀант Кунт-Хьаж, romanized: Kishi K'ant Kunt-X́až; [b] c. 1800 – 1867) [2] was a Chechen Muslim mystic, [3] the founder of a Sufi branch named Zikrism, and an ideologue of nonviolence and passive resistance. He is a follower of the Qadiriyya Sufi order. [4] [5] [6]