Front of Shamyl
Appearance
(Redirected from Union of Avar Jamaat)
The Imam Shamil Front is a militant organization in Dagestan led by Gadzhi Makhachev which supports the cause of the Avar ethnic group,[1] competing with the interest of Kumyk movements.[2] The larger Avar movement had split into the Shamyl front and the Union of Avar Jamaat.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Bruce Ware Robert; Professor Robert Bruce Ware (18 December 2014). Dagestan: Russian Hegemony and Islamic Resistance in the North Caucasus. Routledge. pp. 56–. ISBN 978-1-317-47345-9.
- ^ Tatiana Mastyugina; Lev Perepelkin (1996). An Ethnic History of Russia: Pre-revolutionary Times to the Present. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 233–. ISBN 978-0-313-29315-3.
- ^ Hilary Pilkington; Galina Yemelianova (27 August 2003). Islam in Post-Soviet Russia. Routledge. pp. 294–. ISBN 978-1-134-43186-1.