Najmuddin of Gotzo
Najmuddin of Gotzo | |
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هوخسا نازمودن ХӀоцоса Нажмудин | |
Najmuddin in the 1910s | |
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| Personal life | |
| Born | 1859 |
| Died | October 1925 (aged 65–66) Rostov-on-Don, Azov-Black Sea Krai, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Rostov Oblast, Russia) |
| Cause of death | Execution by shooting |
| Region | North Caucasus |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Sunni Islam |
| Denomination | Sufism |
| Sect | Naqshbandi |
| Senior posting | |
| Based in | |
| Post | Mufti of the North Caucasus |
| Period in office | 1917–1920 |
| Imam of Dagestan and Chechnya | |
| In office May 1918 – c. 1921 Disputed with Uzun-Hajji (May 1919 – 30 March 1920) | |
| Monarch | Said Shamil (from 1920) |
| Preceded by | Position re-established Himself (1917) |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished |
| In office 17 August 1917 – 20 August 1917 | |
| Preceded by | Position re-established Alibek-Hajji (1878) |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus |
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Najmuddin of Gotzo (1859 – October 1925) was a North Caucasian religious, military, and political leader who led multiple uprisings against the Bolsheviks during and after the Russian Civil War. A poet and teacher of Arabic prior to the Russian Revolution, Najmuddin first served as Mufti of the Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus.
Najmuddin was born into a family of landowning nobles who had defected from the Caucasian Imamate of Imam Shamil. Prior to the Russian Revolution, he was part of both the ulama and the Russian government, and he was briefly a bureaucrat for the Russian Provisional Government following the February Revolution. Najmuddin led a series of rebellions in both Dagestan and Chechnya against Russian authorities, seeking to establish an independent Islamic theocracy in the North Caucasus under his leadership. Following the failure of a 1924–1925 insurgency in Chechnya led by Najmuddin, he was captured by the Red Army in September 1925. He was then executed by the Soviet government.