By Gary Hamburg, Thomas Sanders, Ernest Tucker
This publication provides striking texts - The Shining of Swords through Al-Qarakhi and a brand new translation for a modern readership of Leo Tolstoy's Hadji Murat - illuminating the mountain battle among the Muslim peoples of the Caucasus and the imperial Russian military from 1830 to 1859. The authors provide an entire statement at the numerous highbrow and non secular contexts that formed the 2 texts and clarify the ancient importance of the Russian-Muslim war of words. it's proven that the mountain battle was once a conflict of 2 cultures, spiritual outlooks and assorted worlds. The publication presents a tremendous historical past for the continued contest among Russia and indigenous humans for regulate of the Caucasus.
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End [of story]. One day after finishing the morning prayer, Yunus was still in the prayer position. The chalandar came up, performed seven [prayer] prostrations, and turned in prayer to God [himself]. ” He continuously lectured [Yunus] like a Muslim preacher and calmed his [Yunus’s] heart. When Yunus realized with certainty that the Russians’ only goal was to crush Shamil, he sought to find a trustworthy man to convey this information to him. ” Murtaza ‘Ali was another man being held by them. “There will be great wages and unceasing blessings from our tsar for you in this.
The [Russians] did not accept this but requested that Barti Khan come, but he refused. Then they demanded that [the families and] children [who were with Shamil] return to their native villages to guarantee the peace. He sent some families back to their homes in Chirqata and Gimrah, but this wasn’t enough for the Russians. Addendum: Shamil’s comrade Yunus related that when Shamil decided to give [his son] Jamal al-Din as a hostage [to the Russians], they held a meeting to see who would accompany him and teach him the rules of the Islamic religion.
Ghazi Muhammad said to Shamil, “you do not live here,” as if he did not want him to stay there. There was a lot of gunpowder stored there. The enemy surrounded the house. Some of them climbed on its roof and poked holes in it. The [Muslims] shot from inside the house to return [enemy] fire. Shamil’s gun jammed. The men on the roof were sticking their guns through the holes and shooting at those inside, just as Shamil had seen in his dream. Ghazi Muhammad ordered his troops to rush out the door of the house.