RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Gamzat-bek

1789 - 1834

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Hamzat Bek (also Hamza, or Gamzat from the Russian rendering; Avar: ХIамзат Бек, romanized: Ħamzat Bek; Chechen: Хьамзат Бек, romanized: Ẋamzat Bek; Russian: Гамзат-бек, romanized: Gamzat-bek; 1789 – 1 October [O.S. 19 September] 1834) was the imam of Dagestan between 1832 and 1834. He was the second leader of the movement begun by his predecessor Ghazi Muhammad for the implementation of sharia in Dagestan. He fought against local communities and rulers that followed customary law (adat) and against the Russian army. Unlike his predecessor Ghazi Muhammad and his successor Shamil, Hamzat Bek was the son of an Avar nobleman and was not a member of the Naqshbandiyya-Khalidiyya Sufi order. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gamzat-bek is the 2,571st most popular religious figure (down from 1,912th in 2019), the 1,506th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,108th in 2019) and the 36th most popular Russian Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Gamzat-bek ranks 2,571 out of 3,187. Before him are Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg, Arcadio Larraona Saralegui, Edmund Campion, Kuriakose Elias Chavara, János Simor, and Saint Thorlak. After him are Pietro Palazzini, Alfred Des Cloizeaux, Jon Sobrino, Shuka, Yisrael Meir Kagan, and Paul Egede.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1789, Gamzat-bek ranks 41. Before him are Friedrich Silcher, Carlos Soublette, Bernhard Severin Ingemann, Peter Joseph Lenné, Manuel de la Peña y Peña, and Leona Vicario. After him are Miguel Barragán, Cesare Balbo, Michel Félix Dunal, Thaddeus Bulgarin, Joséphine Fodor, and Alphonse Henri d'Hautpoul. Among people deceased in 1834, Gamzat-bek ranks 38. Before him are Charles Lamb, Filip Višnjić, Albrecht Wilhelm Roth, Joseph Bové, Infanta Maria da Assunção of Braganza, and Thomas Telford. After him are Thomas Say, George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer, Alexius Frederick Christian, Duke of Anhalt-Bernburg, Pierre Adet, William H. Crawford, and John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Gamzat-bek ranks 1,506 out of 3,761. Before him are Vasily Golitsyn (1643), Vyacheslav Zaytsev (1952), Karen Khachaturian (1920), Mischa Auer (1905), Alexander Chayanov (1888), and Esfir Shub (1894). After him are Mikhail Khorobrit (1229), Vladimir Bonch-Bruyevich (1873), Alexander Serov (1820), Stepan Krasheninnikov (1711), Nikolai Slichenko (1934), and Vitaly Churkin (1952).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Russia

Among religious figures born in Russia, Gamzat-bek ranks 36. Before him are Anna Filosofova (1837), Philip II, Metropolitan of Moscow (1507), Marina Semyonova (1908), Talgat Tadzhuddin (1948), Elsa Brändström (1888), and Patriarch Hermogenes of Moscow (1530). After him are Abraham of Smolensk (1172), Alexius, Metropolitan of Kiev (1290), Nikolay Ilminsky (1822), Herman of Alaska (1756), Ignatius Brianchaninov (1807), and Nilus of Sora (1433).

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