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[citation needed] Dagestan underwent a rise in Islamic militancy in the early 2000s. [24] Violence in the Republic occurred in 2010–2012. [citation needed] This upsurge led some people to fear that Dagestan was about to enter into a sectarian civil war. Dagestan became the epicenter of violence in the North Caucasus with Makhachkala, Kaspiisk ...
Muhammad Rafi (also known as Diya ad-Din Abul-Fath al-Makki or Mullah Rafi) was a medieval Dagestani historian who lived in the second half of the 13th century. The author of the historical chronicle "Tarikhi Dagestan" (“History of Dagestan”) written in 1312–1313.
The 1897 Russian Imperial census indicated 912 Arabic-speakers in central and southern Dagestan [11] and none in what would become Azerbaijan. Notably, literary Arabic retained its role as the language of learning in Dagestan for centuries [ 12 ] and was the main language of instruction in the local schools from 1920 to 1923 until replaced by ...
Daghestani Arabist scholars were famous, attracting students from the whole Muslim world. The lingua franca in Daghestan before the Revolution was Arabic . Then, in the 1920s and 1930s, the main thrust of the anti-religious campaign , was to eradicate Arabic, a religious language, and replace it with Russian.
Over the years, Russia's southern republic of Dagestan, located in the North Caucasus region, has been beset by extremist violence. This weekend, there was more bloodshed. Officials say five gunmen in the regional capital of Makhachkala and the city of Derbent opened fire at Orthodox churches and two synagogues, as well as a police post ...
Dagestan came under Ottoman rule between 1578 and 1606. [17] The Safavids started operations to spread Shiism in Dagestan at the beginning of the 19th century but were met with fierce resistance of Dagestanis. Shah Abbas II established a significant influence in Dagestan in 1639. It started to attract the attention of the Russians from the 17th ...
Over the years, Russia's southern republic of Dagestan, located in the North Caucasus region, has been beset by extremist violence. Officials say five gunmen in the regional capital of Makhachkala ...
Ghazi Muhammad was born sometime in the early 1790s [a] in the village of Gimry in the Koysubu confederation of Avar villages in Dagestan. [4] [5] According to the late-19th-century Avar-language chronicle of Hasanilaw al-Gimrawi, the names of his parents were Muhammad, son of Ismail, and Bagistan, and he had two sisters named Aminat (Amina) and Patimat (Fatima).