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Chechen Islamic and military leader

This article is about the Chechen Islamic and military leader. For the deputy prime minister of the United Arab Emirates, see Sheikh Mansour.

Sheikh Mansur (born Ushurma or Uchermak,c. 1760 – 13 April 1794) was a Chechen military commander and Islamic leader who led a resistance movement against Russian expansion into the Caucasus from 1785 until his capture in 1791. Sheikh Mansur is considered the first leader of the resistance in the North Caucasus against Russian imperialism. He remains a hero of the Chechen and North Caucasian peoples in general, and their struggle for independence.

Biography

Sheikh Mansur, whose birth name was Ushurma or Uchermak, was born in Aldi [ru], a small aul (village) located on the Sunzha River in Chechnya, near the modern-day Chechen capital of Grozny. Since he described himself as being a little over 30 years old to his Russian captors in 1791, it is assumed that he was born around 1760. He came from a family of poor Chechen farmers of the Elistanzhi teip (clan). His father's name was Shebesse or Shahbaz, and his family had previously lived in the village of Khattuni before settling in Aldi. Ushurma tended to his neighbors' flocks in his early life. Contemporary Russian and Ottoman sources report that he was illiterate, but he may have received some basic education from a local mullah or scholars in neighboring Dagestan, which was a significant center of Islamic learning. He married a woman named Checha and, according to one source, had a son and two daughters. According to another source, he had only two children. It is frequently assumed that he joined the Naqshbandi Sufi order, but, according to Michael Kemper, there is no evidence of this.

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وَمَنۡ أَعۡرَضَ عَن ذِڪۡرِى فَإِنَّ لَهُ ۥ مَعِيشَةً۬ ضَنكً۬ا وَنَحۡشُرُهُ ۥ يَوۡمَ ٱلۡقِيَـٰمَةِ أَعۡمَىٰ

“But whosoever turns away from My Reminder (i.e. neither believes in this Qur’ân nor acts on its teachings) verily, for him is a life of hardship, and We shall raise him up blind on the Day of Resurrection.”[The Noble Qu’ran 20:124]