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Ghazi Muhammad
Ghazi Muhammad was an Avar scholar of the Naqshbandi order who became the first imam of Dagestan around 1828–1829. He preached holy war and strict sharia against Russian rule and local customary law, raiding Russian forts and towns such as Kizlyar. He was killed when Russian troops stormed his home village of Gimry in 1832.
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