Makhach Musaev

Makhach Musaev
Daghestan Federal Research Centre of RAS · Institute of History, Archeology and Ethnography

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The Arabic language, which came to the East Caucasus along with Islam, with the intensification of Islamization processes became the language of writing for the region. It maintained this status until the end of the 1920s of the 20th century, fundamentally changing the local nomenclature of proper names and fully adapting their spelling to the alre...
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A number of solid monographs are dedicated to Nadir Shah’s campaign in Dagestan in 1741-1743. While reviewing these studies, one can note a significant discrepancy in the estimations of the size of Nadir Shah's troops during the invasion of Dagestan in the spring of 1741. The authors provide information that specifies the army’s size ranging from “...
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Experts, who examine Dagestan tombstones, in the absence of a specific date on a tombstone itself or the impossibility of determining it by the content of the inscription or the analysis of texts, use several methods of dating by external elements – by the features of the style (fonts) of texts and by analyzing ornamentation. The subjects of these...
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Dakhadayevsky district of Dagestan is one of the most saturated with historical and cultural monuments in the republic. Among them are towers, bridges, mosques, minarets, ziyarats, cemeteries. Most of them bear inscriptions that have not been adequately studied. Meanwhile, epigraphic texts are one of the main sources of the spiritual, religious, po...
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A Turkish citizen of Chechen origin, Haji Yusuf played a significant role in the formation of the administrative and military institutions of the Imamat, the construction of fortifications, in communications with officials of the Ottoman Empire; he is considered one of the important figures of the Shamil era, "the behind-the-scenes mind of the imam...
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In 1753, Jonas Hanway's four-volume work "Historical Report" was published in London. The last volumes of “British trade across the Caspian Sea” are devoted to the history of Iran from 1722 to 1749. The first two volumes mostly contain reports of different nature about the history and state of British trade with the East through Russia, narratives...
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The campaigns of Nadir Shah's troops in Dagestan are devoted to several specialized studies published in the form of monographs, many articles, the preparation of which involved a wide range of sources and diverse literature. At the same time, it cannot be said that it is exhaustive. Interesting information resources about the events of 1741-43 in...
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The paper presents some of the study results of the family cemetery of hereditary rulers of Kaitag, located in Qala-Quraysh. During several expeditions in 2017–2018, more than 40 stelas, dating XIV c. – 1803/04, were studied. Names of the deceased, dates of their death, and other historical information, as well as poems, religious sayings, prayers...
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Despite the well-known imperative alcohol prohibition in Islam, in their everyday lives, throughout many places and times, Muslims have been drinking alcohols. In this research, the religious prohibition and its practices are discussed in the context of the bicentennial history of Dagestan (until the final annexation by the Russian Empire). The art...

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