Download or read book Muslim Resistance to the Tsar written by Moshe Gammer and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2003-07-30 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has been written about the Muslim Murid movement and its leader Shamil, who resisted the Tsarist Russian expansion into Chechan and Daghestan for more than quarter of a century. This study, based on research in multilingual archives, offers a fresh insight into a subject that generates constant controversy in Russian historiography and has often been misinterpreted by Western scholars.