‘Abd al-Karim al-Chirkawi (Shamil’s secretary) 65
‘Abd al-Khaliq al-Ghujduwani 178
‘Abd al-Qadir (Algerian leader) 198–9
‘Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti, Aja’ib al-Athar fi al-Tarajim wa al-Akhbar 209
Abd al-Rahman al-Qarakhi 35
Abdullah al-Ashilti 18
Abraham (prophet) 225
Abu Ja’far al-Tabari, Tarikh al-Rusul wa al-Muluk, 208
Abumuslim-Shakhvalikhan 192
Adam (prophet) 225
adat (customary law) 11, 34, 39
Adrianople (Edirne) 174
Agakhal 34
Agha Muhammad Khan (Shah of Iran) 174
Aghach Qala (Chumeskent) 17, 19
Aghdash Awukh (Aktash Aukh) 18
Ahmad Khan al-Sahali (Akhmet-khan) 17, 31–5, 46, 177
Ahmad Sirhindi al-Faruqi, Shaykh 178
Akalich 34
Akhbirdil Muhammad al-Khunzakhi 37, 45, 47
Akhulgoh 29, 36, 38, 42–8, 183, 204–6
al-‘Abbas 69
Alazan (river valley) 164, 184, 207
Alexander I (Aleksandr I; Russian Tsar, 1801–25) 173
Alexander II (Aleksandr II; Russian Tsar, 1855–81) 65, 197–8, 202
Alexandria, Egypt 69
Ali Mamad 55
Alibek al-Khunzakhi 47
Alibek ibn Khiriyasulaw 36
Aligul Husayn 32
Alial-Gulzawi 31–2
Ali Sultan 17
Almakhal 48
al-Quduqi 63
al-Thughuri 33
Alupka 228
Amir Khan 204
Amirasol Muhammad al-Kudali 64
Anapa 67
Andreas, F.C. 226
Araks River 174
Armenia 174–6
Arslan-Khan 218
Artlukh 48
Aslan al-Tsadaqari 65
Astrakhan 172
Atli Buyun 17
Austerlitz 214
Avar (tribe) 25, 33, 39, 72, 177, 184–5, 190, 193, 218–9, 227, 238;
(village) 34
Azerbaijan 174
Azizay 50
Bab (Sayyid Ali-Muhammad) 224–5
Babis, Babism 224–6
Baha al-Din Naqshband 178
Baha’is, Baha’ism 225–6
Baha’ism 226
Baha’ullah, Book of Certitude 226
Bala li-Muhammad al-Birguni 47
Balagin 23
Baqiyya 69
Baqulal 15–16, 31, 34, 36, 49, 62
Bariatinskii Aleksandr Ivanovich, Prince 186, 197–8, 201–2, 212–16, 223
Barti Khan (Shamil’s paternal uncle) 27–8, 32, 37–44, 47
Basaw ‘Illaw 32
Bashkirs 172
Batir al-Militi 58
Bayt al-Haram (Mecca) 65
Beliaev, Aleksandr Petrovich 223
Bennigsen, Alexandre 177
Bers, Stepan Andreevich 217
Berzhe (Berguet), Adol’f Petrovich 210, 227, 237
Bestvzhev-Marlinskii, A.A. 211
Biladi 49
Biri 33
Biriukov, Pavel Ivanovich 232
Bizu’ 62–3
Bloom, Harold 76
Bobrishchev-Pushkin, Pavel Sergeevich 223
Boguslavskii, Colonel 66
Borodino 214
Brahminism 226
Bronevskii, Semen 175
Bruni, Leonardo, Historiarum Florentini populi ibn 208
Bucharest (treaty) 174
Bukhdah 58
Bulanzhe (Boulanger), Pavel Aleksandrovich 228
Bulgars 171
Buq Muhammad 62
Burnaia 177
Burtinah 57
Butay 60
Butler, Captain 217, 229, 236, 238
Butsun 33
Canard, Marius 200
Catherine II (Russian Tsarina, 1762–1796) 172–3
Caucasus vi, viii, x, 1–6, 8, 10–12, 38, 171, 198–202, 210, 221–4, 226–30, 232–3, 236–8;
nineteenth-century conflict between Russia and Shamil in 182–97;
Russian advance into 173–82;
Tolstoi and 211–20
chalandar 38–42
Chamaw al-Qaytaqi 21
Chavchavadze 60
Chechens vi, 2, 19, 34, 48, 51, 57, 72, 74–5, 185–6, 212–18, 229, 233, 236
Chechnia ix, x, 18–22, 32, 49–50, 71–2, 177, 182, 186–9, 196–9, 210, 214–15, 218
Chernyshev, Minister of War Aleksandr Ivanovich 228, 233
Chiriq 45
Chirkah (Chirkei) 14, 17–19, 50
Chita 223
Christian, R.F. 76
and Tolstoi, 220–6
Christians 2, 51–2, 54, 69, 172, 176, 179, 185, 204, 224, 237
Chumal 18
Circassia 198
Circassians 18, 172, 176–7, 186–7, 196–8
Confucians 221
Confucius 225
Countess Lidiia 221
Daghestan ix, x, 4, 7, 8, 11–13, 21, 30, 37, 50, 61, 68, 71, 112, 174, 176–7, 180, 183–4, 187–9, 191, 194, 196–200, 210–11
Daniyal Sultan 53, 55, 62–3, 65, 202
Darada 52
Darghiyya (Dargo) 57, 183, 190, 200, 203–5
Darvish Nur Muhammad al-Inkhawi 16, 205
dhikr [“recollecting God”] 178, 180–1
Dibir al-‘Andi 62
Dibir Hajiyaw 32–3
Dibir ibn Inkachilaw al-Khunzakhi 64
diwan 189
Diya al-Din Khalid al-Shahrazuri al-Kurdamiri, Shaykh 179
Dostoevskii, F.M., 227;
and Crime and Punishment, 236
Dreyfus, Hippolyte 226
Dubrovin, Nikolai Fedorovich 210, 237
Durda 218
Eastern Caucasus 177, 197–8, 213–14
Eastern Slavs 171
Ermolov, Aleksandr Petrovich 174–5, 177, 180, 183
Erzurum 174–6
Fatima (Shamil’s wife) 29, 45, 51
Fet, Afanasii Afanas’evich 223
Filofei 171
Foote, Paul 2
Galalal 57
Gammer, Moshe 177, 182–6, 191, 193
Georgians 1, 59–60, 173, 184, 231
Ghalbaz al-Karati 64
Gharashkiti 49
ghaza/ghazwa (military campaign) 7–8, 19, 21, 23, 35, 45, 47, 56, 182, 190, 200, 238
Ghazanish 17
Ghazi Muhammad (first imam) x, 7, 9, 11–25, 71–2, 74, 190
Ghazi Muhammad (Shamil’s son) 29, 42–7, 56–65, 67–70
Ghazna 204
Ghuluda 16
Ghunib 61–2, 64, 68, 201–2, 207
Ghursh al-Sughuri 64
Gibbon, Edward 208
Gimrah 9, 15–17, 19–29, 31–2, 37, 39, 45–6, 182–3, 200, 204–5
Girgil 50–1
Gorky, Maxim vi
Grabbe, Pavel 38
Grinevskaia, Isabella Arkad’evna 226
Groznyi (Groznaya) 59, 98, 177, 186
Gubash 205
Gulistan (treaty) 174
Gurdali 215
Guria 175
Gurzal Awul 51
Gvosdev, Nikolas K. 173
Habibullah 4, 8, 202–3, 211, 237
Hadith al-Mililti 16
Hadji Murat (novella), v, vi, ix, x, 2, 4–6, 8, 25, 46, 56, 58–9, 73–6, 175, 185, 190–6, 216–20, 226–38
Hadji Murat al-Khunzakhi v-vi, ix-x, 2, 4, 6, 8, 25, 46, 74–76, 185, 190–6, 216–20, 226–38;
confrontation with Shamil 58–9
Hajiyaw al-‘Uruti 20, 62–3, 205–6
Hajiyaw ibn al-Tsitawi al-Huchuti 55
Hajiyaw ibn Ghaziyaw al-Karati 65
Hajiyaw ibn Hajj Dibir al-Qarakhi 63
Hajj Dibir 199
Hajj Ibrahim al-Chirkisi 64
Hajj Musa 55
Hajj Nasrullah al-Qabiri al-Kurali 64
Hajj Yahya al-Chirkawi 53
Hajj Yusuf al-Yaksavi 202
halal 42
Hamza Bek (second imam) x, 7, 11–12, 15–17, 19, 25–7, 34, 71–2, 188, 190, 201, 218
Haqlal 35
Harakan 15
Hasan Husayn 20
Hasanalmuhammad al-Harikuli 24
Hashimi 14
Hazra 54–5
Herder, Johann Gottfried, Ideen zur Philosophie der Geschichte der Menschheit 208
Himmat al-Hutsaliyun 49
Hitin al-Danukhi 48
Husayn al-Girgili 58
Husayn ibn Ibrahim al-Gimrawi 26
Hutsal 33
Hutub 55
Ianzhul, M.A. 212
Ibn Khurdadhbih 171
Ibrahim al-Husayn 39
Idris 51
Ifuta 51
Ilisu 59
Ilya 50
Imanqalaw al-Jirfati 48
Ingush 185
Inkhub 62
‘Iri 55
‘Isa Hajiyaw al-Chirkawi 47
Isaev, Balta (Bulta) 216
Isbahi al-Chirkawi 62
Ishchali 63
Islam 2, 5–6, 9, 11–15, 37, 51, 54, 59, 61, 67–69, 71–4, 171, 176–9, 182, 184–5, 188, 191, 193, 195–6, 198–9, 202, 204, 207, 209, 220–1, 223–6, 238
Ismail, Shaykh 178
Istanbul (Islambol) 31, 73, 171, 176, 178;
Shamil’s stay in 66–70
Istoricheskii Vestnik, 227
Istoriia gosudarstva Rossiiskago, 208
Iusif see Yusuf
Ivan III (Russian Tsar, 1462–1505) 171
Jamal al-Chirkawi 21
Jamal al-Din (Shamil’s son) 18, 29;
returned to Shamil 57–61, 200–3;
sent as a hostage to the Russians 38–40
Jamal al-Din al-Ghazi-Ghumuqi (religious leader) 12, 14, 69, 71, 188, 190, 200–3;
led resistance to the Russians 178–81;
and al-Adab al-Murdhiyya fi al-Tariqa al-Naqshbandiyya 181
Jamaw Khan al-Khaydaqi 58
Jarbilil 33
Javad Khan 49
Jawad Khan al-Darghiyyi 47, 49
Jews 221
Ka’ba 13
Kafr Ghumuq 17–8
Kahal mountain 64
Kakheti 196
Kalal 62
Kalmyk 216
Kamal al-Ghuludi 64
Karabulaks 185
Karalal 49
Karamzin, N.M. 208–9
Karataev, Platon 233
Karganov, Colonel Iosif Ivanovich 218–19
kashf 20
Kazan’ 172
Khaidak 192
Khalid, Adeeb 209
Khalid, Shaykh 178
Khan Mukhul 22
Khas Muhammad, Shaykh 178
Khirik 33
Khiva 209
Khiz al-Chirqawi 47
Khudanatil Muhammad 49
Khunuk 199
Khunzakh 16, 21, 25–6, 31, 33–4, 51, 59, 72, 184, 190–2, 195, 205, 218
Kievan Rus’ 171
Klugenau, Frants Klüge-von- 27–9, 33–4, 37, 190
Kokand 209
Korganov, Colonel Iosif Ivanovich 230
Korganova 230–1
Kostenetskii, Iakov Ivanovich 218
Krasnoe 106
kunak 217
Kurdistan 180
Kurinskoe 215
Kuydurmas (Gudermes) 19
Layton, Susan, Russian Literature and Empire, 175, 211–12, 219, 234
Lazarev, General 210
Lebedeva, Ol’ga Sergeevna 225
Lermontov, M.Iu. viii, 211–12;
and “Pamiati A.I. O-go” [“To the Memory of A.I. O[doevskii]”], 224
Lesser Chechnia 182
Life of the Prophet, see Muhammad ibn Ishaq
Lorer, Nikolai I. 175
Loris-Melikov, M.T. 228
Ma’arukh 49
Mahdi (son of the shamkhal) 27, 28
Mahmud (sultan of Ghazna) 204
Mahmud II (Ottoman Sultan) 67
Makhachkala 176, 190, 199, 211
manakib 7
Manych, 186
Marx, Karl 197
Mazlagash 215
Mecca 7, 12, 29, 47, 65, 67, 69–73, 176, 179, 191, 198–9, 202, 206, 208, 210
Meccan Bestowal seeal-Quduqi
Medina x, 7–8, 12, 20, 47, 69–71, 73, 199
Mekhelta 15–16
Michit 80
Miliutin, D.A. 185
Milrik Murtaza ‘Ali al-Chirkawi al-Mugharrib 64
Mirdai al-Tiliqi 35
Mirza Ali 55
Miserbiev, Sado 216
Misigulaw al-‘Andi 54
Moscow 12, 66, 70, 171–2, 174–5, 178, 188–90, 197, 200, 208, 211–12, 221, 225, 228, 232, 238
mudir 191
muezzin (Muslim prayer caller) 22, 48, 78, 235
Mughal India 178
Muhammad (prophet) 2, 7, 11–14, 20, 178, 204, 206–7, 224
Muhammad Efendi al-Humi 55
Muhammad Efendi al-Yaraghi 14, 18–20, 25, 72
Muhammad ibn Abd al-Latif al-Ilisuwi, 55
Muhammad ibn Ishaq, Sira (Life of Muhammad) 7, 199, 204
Muhammad ibn Ma’ruf al-Nuqushi, 55
Muhammad Kamil (Shamil’s son) 69
Muhammad al-Mahdi (Muslim messiah) 47, 57, 74, 224
Muhammad Mirza Khan al-Ghumuqi 35
Muhammed Mirza Mavraev 211
Muhammad Naqshbandi, Shaykh 47
Muhammad Shafi 49
Muhammad Sultan 22
Muhammad Tahir al-Qarakhi v-ix, 1–9, 11, 21, 35, 56–8, 63–4, 66–7, 70, 74, 76, 188, 191–5, 237;
and The Shining of Daghestani Swords 198–211
Muhammad Tilaw 57
Muhammad al-‘Uradi al-Hidali 58
Muhras Shu’ayb 60
Mulla Ramazan al-Chari 35
Murav’ev, General Nikolai Nikolaevich 186–7
murid(follower/disciple) 27, 38, 49, 78–81, 118–19, 149, 156, 181–2, 190, 193, 235
“Murid War” 182
murshid (Sufi Muslim spiritual guide) 181–2, 191, 234
Murtaza Ali al-‘Uruti 56
Murtaza Ali al-Chirqawi 47
Murtaza Ali al-Dhuldi al-Qarakhi 21
Murtaza Ali al-Haradarikhiyan 49
Murtaza al-‘Urkachi al-Mugharrib 64
Musa al-Balagini 44
Musa al-Balatkini 49
Muslims 4, 7, 11, 13, 33, 42, 61, 65, 171–2, 178–9, 181, 184–5, 190, 207, 221, 225, 237
Mustafa Khan al-Shirvani 50
naib 21, 33, 48, 51, 54–9, 62–4, 76, 189–90, 192–6, 200, 202
Nakashidze, Il’ia Petrovich 231
Nakhbakal 43
Nakhichevan 174
Napoleon 174
Naqshbandi Sufi order (Naqshbandiyya) 7, 8, 12, 14, 47, 71–2, 177–9, 181–2, 189, 191, 201, 206–7
Nasrullah 64
Nazranovs 185
Nelidova 234
New Darghiyyah see Vedeno
Nicholas I (Russian Tsar, 1825–1855) 4, 61, 184, 197, 228, 231, 235–6
Nicolai (Nikolai), General Leontii Pavlovich 37, 175, 185, 201–2, 210, 223, 238
Nogai 186–7
North Caucasus 1, 173–4, 176–9, 181–2, 185, 196, 198–200, 217–18, 232, 236, 238
Nukha 230
Nukhuh 59
Nur Ali 49
Nur Muhammad al-Qarakhi 58
Obolenskaia, Mariia Lvov’na 232
Obruchev, Lieutenant-General Nikolai Nikolaevich 223
Orota 32–3
Odoevskii, Aleksandr Ivanovich, “Nash otvet” [“Our Response”] 223–4
Optina Pustyn’ 227
Orbeliani, Princess 228
Orthodox/Orthodoxy 4, 171–2, 182, 184–5, 197, 220–2, 225, 227, 238
Ottomans/Ottoman Empire 7–8, 66–9, 171–4, 176–8, 187, 196–8, 209, 225–6, 238
Padishah 66–8
Paskiewicz, Ivan F. 174–6, 224
Paul I (Russian Tsar, 1796–1801) 173
Peace of Paris 197
Peresvetov, Ivan Semenovich 172
Persia see Iran
Peter the Great (Russian Tsar, 1682–1725) 232, 234
pharaoh 69
Piri Awul 17
Pirogovo 227
Poltoratskii, V A. 215, 219, 227
Potemkin, Grigorii Aleksandrovich 173
Potto, Lieutenant-General Vasilii Aleksandrovich 231
Povest’ vremennykh let [Tale of Bygone Tears], 171
Prince Vladimir 171
Przewalski, Pavel Giliarovich 210, 237
Pushkin, A.S. 175–6, 208, 211, 224
Qachar 21
qadi (Muslim judge) 177, 189–90, 205
Qakhal 202
al-Qarakhi see Muhammad Tahir al-Qarakhi
Qaral 33
Qaralal 34
Qaralala 63
Qaranay 15
Qarata 200
Qidhlar 18–19, 27, 47, 52, 184, 205
Qinsir 63
Qubah 54
al-Quduqi, Meccan Bestowal 63, 205
Quran 11–13, 30, 70–4, 172, 181, 188–90, 207–8, 221, 224–6
Qurban ‘Ali al-‘Ashilti 199
Qurbanli Muhammad al-Batsadi 62
Quruda 51
Rajabil Muhammad al-Chirkawi 26
Raqahchi 59
Read, General N.A. 197
Redout-Kale 174
Renaissance 208
Resurrection 235
Rifaah al-Tahtawi, Manakib al-Albab al-Misriyyah fi Mabahij al-Adab al-‘Asriyyah 209
Rigil-Nukhu 26
Rihiq 34
Rilke, Rainer-Maria 226
Romanov, Grand Duke Nikolai Mikhailovich 228
Rome 171
Rousseau J.-J. 238
Rozen, Major-General 182
Runovskii, Capt. 65
Rus’ 171
Rusanov, Gavriil Andreevich 238
Russians 56–70, 76, 171–91, 193–231, 233–8
Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774) 173
Russo-Turkish War (1828–1829) 223, 226
Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) 226
Sa’id (infant son of Shamil) 204
Sa’id al-Harakani 21, 23, 43, 205
Salatawh 18
Sbornik materiakv dlia opisaniia mestnostei i plemen Kavkaza [Colkcted Materials for the Description of Places and Tribes of the Caucasus] 227
Sbornik svedenii o kavkazskikh gortsakh [Collected Materials on the Caucasian Mountain Peoples] 227
Serbs 221
Shafi’i rite (Islamic legal school) 27
Shahwal Khan 58
Shamil, v–x, 1, 2, 4, 6–9, 11, 12, 183–6, 188, 190, 198–203, 210–11, 215, 217–18, 227–8, 230, 232–5, 237, 250–5;
became third imam 25;
death 69;
defended Islamic values and practices 24–5, 27, 29–31, 33, 35, 37;
depicted as a Muslim holy man 204–9;
last stand at Ghunib 64–65;
meeting with Russians 37–9;
mentioned in Tolstoi’s Hadji Murat 78, 80, 82, 89, 91–2, 96–7, 107, 109–12, 115–24, 130, 135, 138, 141–5, 152–5, 158–9, 166;
political and military leadership 188–97;
relationship with Ghazi Muhammad 20;
relationship with Hadji Murat 59;
showed bravery and persistence 19, 22–3, 26, 28, 31, 35, 40, 42, 44;
trip to Mecca and Medina 67–9;
trip to St. Petersburg 65–7
shamkhal 14, 17, 20, 27–8, 58, 71
Shamkhal Birdi 50
Shan Kiray 58–9
Sharakh 35
sharia (Islamic holy law) 11–15, 23–5, 27, 30, 33, 35, 46, 58, 68, 70–1, 73–4, 177–81, 188–9, 191,
197, 205, 207, 224, 235
Sharif of Mecca 208
Shawana the Christian 69
Sha’ban al-Buhnudi, Shaykh 17
Shaykhis 224
Shi’a 224
The Shining of Daghestani Swords v-vi, 1–8, 12–13, 48, 56, 67, 74, 76, 188, 199, 201–5, 208–11, 237–8;
see also Muhammad Tahir al-Qarakhi
Shir Muhammad Munis, Firdaws al-Iqbal 209
Shirakhal, 54
Shirazi, Sayyid Ali-Muhammed, Bayan 224–5
Shirvan 178
Shuayb al-Tsamuturi 49
Shul’gin, Sergei Nikolaevich 232
Silikul Muhammad al-Tanusi, 47
Sira see Muhammad Ibn Ishaq
Skazanie o Magmete-saltane [Legend of Sultan Mahmet] 172
Solov’ev, V S. 227
St. Petersburg 8, 12, 65–6, 76, 171, 184, 197, 202, 210, 215, 218, 223, 227, 231–3, 237
Stasov, Vladimir Vasil’evich 227, 229, 231
Stavropol 186
Strakhov, N.N. 223
Sufis x, 2, 7–8, 12, 14, 57, 71–2, 177–9, 181–2, 185, 193, 197, 199, 204, 237
Sughur 55
Sukhumi 174
Sulayman Efendi 185
Sultanaw al-Rughchawi 26
Sunja 59
Syria 180
Tabarsaran (Tabassaran) 18, 58, 74, 177, 191–4
Tah Nosalal, 33
Tandub 62–3
Tarad-Inkhal 205
tariqat (Sufi order) 14
Tatar 76–8, 96, 113, 116, 124, 139, 148–9, 165, 172, 215–16, 227, 236
Tatary 172
Tattakh 49
Tbilisi Military-Historical Archive 231
Tbilisi (Tiflis) 17, 174–6, 198–9, 210, 212, 214, 217, 231, 227–8, 237
Temir-Khan-Shura 28, 108, 120, 202
The Hardened Hearts of Daghestan 211
“Third Rome” 171
Tiflis see Tbilisi
Tiklal 35
Time of Troubles, 208
Tolstaia, Aleksandra Andreevna 231
Tolstaia, Mariia Nikolaevna 227
Tolstaia, Sofiia Andreevna 221–2
Tolstoi, Lev, v–x, 2, 4, 6, 8, 46, 56, 75–6;
and Baha’i faith 225–6;
and Hadji Murat 211–24, 227–38;
and Ispoved’ [Corifession] 220–2;
and “Notes on the Caucasus. A Journey to Mamakai-Yurt”, 212;
and “Nabeg” [“The Raid”] 213;
and “Rubka lesa” [“Clearing Foresf”] 215;
and War and Peace 2, 220, 227, 233
Tolstoi, Sergei 216–7, 222, 227, 231
Transcaucasia 197
Troyat, Henri 211
Tsadaqar 53
Tsuntiya 60
Tsurib 63
Tumal 62
Turach al-Karati 56
Turkey 7, 216, 221, 223, 180, 187;
see also Ottomans/Ottoman Empire
Turkmanchai (treaty) 174
Tush al-Karati 65
Uhlib 53
‘Uhud 206
Ulub 26
Umar al-Akalichi 34
Unofficial Committee 173
Ur 44
Uritirk 17
‘Urkach 33
‘Uthmanu 21
Uysunghur 60
Vedan (Vedeno, New Darghiyya) 49, 80, 141, 143–4, 153, 155, 233–4
Veliaminov, General 184
Verderevskii, E.A. 228
Vico, Giambattista, Principi di scienza nuova 208
vilayat (province) 192
Vladimir, Prince 171
Voltaire 238;
and Essai sur les moeurs 208
Vorontsov, M.S., 50–3, 183–6, 205–6, 217, 228–9, 233
Vorontsov, S.M. (son of M.S.Vorontsov) 228;
establishment of a kunak relationship with Hadji Murat 217
Vronskii 221
Western Caucasus 187
Yerevan 174
Yusuf (Hadji Murat’s son) 234–5
Zahida 69
Zakhar’in-Iakunin, I.N. 210
zakon (Russian law) 53, 56, 74
Zelkina, Anna 181
Zisserman, Arnold L’vovich 227
Zoroaster 225
Zunuh 34