Said Afandi al-Chirkawi
Sheikh Said Afandi al-Tschirkawi ( . Awar ЧӀикӀаса СагӀид афанди; russ. Саид афанди Чиркейский Said Afandi Tschirkejski ; born in 1937 in Tschirkei (russ Чиркей), Rayon. Buinaksk , Dagestanian ASSR , RSFSR , USSR ; d. 2012 ibid, Dagestan , RF ), also written as Said Afandi al-Chirkawi , was one of the most respected personalities of the Muslims in Dagestan . He was a great Sufi -Gelehrter and Murshid(spiritual master or "Murshid Kamil") of the Naqschbandīya - and Shādhilīya - Tariqas in Dagestan, Russia . He was a lawyer at the Shafiite School of Law ( madhhab ). He died in a bomb by a female suicide bomber in the town of Tschirkei in the west of the Russian republic. Several other people were killed in the act of terrorism in Tschirkei . He was a representative of a moderate branch of Islam that had advocated cooperation with the Russian authorities against the background of increasing radical currents. Sheikh Said Azayev ran the Nurul Irschad Islamic Institute in the village of Tschirkei . The rector of the Institute for Theology and International Relations in Makhachkala Maksud Sadikow (1963–2011), who had been murdered before him and who had spoken out strongly against Wahhabism , was one of his supporters.
See also
- On the Prohibition of Wahhabi or other extremist activities on the territory of the Republic of Dagestan (O saprete wachchabitskoi i Inoi ekstremistskoi deiatelnosti na territorii Respubliki Dagestan / О запрете ваххабитской и иной экстремистской деятельности на территории Республики Дагестан / scientific. O zaprete vachchabitskoj i inoj ėkstremistskoj dejatel'nosti na territorii Respubliki Dagestan) (1999)
- Naqshbandi kuftariya
- Ahmad Kuftaru
- Achmad Magomedowitsch Abdulayew
References and footnotes
- ↑ spiegel.de: Caucasus: suicide attack and rampage shake Dagestan (August 28, 2012) - accessed on November 14, 2017
- ↑ See Kaflan Khanbabaev: "Islam and Islamic radicalism in Dagestan", p. 82 ff., Note 39, in: Radical Islam in the Former Soviet Union , edited by Galina M. Yemelianova. 2010 ( partial online view )
- ↑ bpb.de: Chronology of the events from June 17 to 30, 2011 in Russia - accessed on November 14, 2017
- ↑ See kavkaz-uzel.eu - accessed on November 14, 2017
- ↑ The Naqshbandi Kuftariya movement is probably Syria's largest and most powerful Islamic group. ( Line Khatib: Syria's Islamic Movement and the Current Uprising: Political Acquiescence, Quietism, and Dissent ( Memento of the original from November 15, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note .: "It is probably Syria's largest and most powerful Islamic group.")
literature
- Galina Yemelianova: Islam, nationalism and state in the Muslim Caucasus . 2015 ( tandfonline.com )
- Galina M. Yemelianova (Ed.): Radical Islam in the Former Soviet Union . 2010
- Jocelyne Cesari (Ed.): The Oxford Handbook of European Islam (Oxford Handbooks in Religion and Theology). 2014 ( partial online view )
Web links
- Biography at islam.ru ( Ислам.ру )
- Russia: Strictly Respect Rights in Dagestan Killing Inquiry
- Sheikh Said Afandi al-Tschirkawi was killed in a suicide attack in the town of Tschirkei in the west of the Russian republic. The 74-year-old religious dignitary was considered one of the most respected figures in Sufism.
- Russia's crackdown on Salafis may be breeding extremism
- islam.ru: Tariqas in Dagestan - by Shaykh Said Afandi al-Chirkawi
- spiegel.de: Caucasus: Suicide attack and rampage shake Dagestan
- jamestown.org: Who Was Really Behind the Death of Dagestan's Sheikh? (Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 9 Issue: 161; Mairbek Vatchagaev)
- interfax.ru: Смертница подорвала шейха (August 28, 2012) (article on the series of attacks) - accessed on December 9, 2016.
- Dagestan: Syria is coming to Russia ... by F. William Engdahl
- Biography of Shaykh Said Afandi al-Chirkawi ad-Daghestani
- Videos
- Biography of Shaykh Said Afandi al-Chirkawi, Murshid of Naqshbandi and Shazali Tariqahs in Dagestan, Russia
- Levels of Murids - by Shaykh Said Afandi
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SURNAME | Tschirkawi, Said Afandi al- |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Саид афанди Чиркейский (Russian); Sheikh Said Afandi al-Chirkawi; Shaykh Said Afandi al-Chirkawi; Sheikh Said Azayev; Said Abdurachmanowitsch Azajew; Said Atsaev; Said Afandi Tschirkeiski; Said Afandi al-Chirkawi; Said Afandi al-Chirkawi; Sheikh Said-Afandi Tschirkejski; Said Afandi al-Chirkawi; Said Abdurachmanowitsch Azajew |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dagestani Sufi of the Naqshbandi and Shādhilīya tariqas |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1937 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Tschirkei |
DATE OF DEATH | 2012 |
Place of death | Tschirkei, Buinaksk , Dagestan |