The author tries to analyze the socio-political views of one of the authoritative religious and public figures of the North Caucasus and Daghestan in the first quarter of the 20th century – a mufti-imam Nazhmuddin Gotsinsky basing on the published works of different years, memoirs of the participants in the revolution and the Civil War, archival documents. The author analyzes the views of N. Gotsinsky through his key speeches, sermons and proclamations of 1917–1918. Nazhmuddin Gozinsky is a famous politician and spiritual leader, chairman of the Spiritual Council of the Union of United Mountaineers of the North Caucasus and Dagestan. He was one of the leaders of the counter-revolutionary movement in Dagestan in 1917–1921. On the basis of the studied materials the author draws a conclusion that social and political and social views of Nazhmuddin Gotsinsky reflected all contradictions of the revolutionary period and tragedy of the Civil war.
Key words: North Caucasus, Dahestan region, mufti, imam, Islam, revolution, Civil war
DOI: 10.22250/2072-8662.2018.2.21-29
About the author
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Imanutdin Kh. Sulaev – Doctor of History, Professor at the Department of National History of the Faculty of History, Daghestan State University; 43a M. Gadzhiev str., Makhachkala, the Republic of Daghestan, 367000; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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