Magomed Aliyevich Suleimanov (russian: Мухаммад Алиевич Сулейманов; 29 February 1976 – 11 August 2015), also known as Abu Usman Gimrinsky (russian: Абу Усман Гимринский), was a Dagestani Islamist in Russia and the third leader of the

Caucasus Emirate The Caucasus Emirate ( ce, Имарат Кавказ, Imarat Kavkaz, IK; russian: Кавказский эмират, Kavkazskiy emirat), also known as the Caucasian Emirate, Emirate of Caucasus, or Islamic Emirate of the Caucasus, was a Jihadist ...

militant group.

Biography

An ethnic Avar from the Dagestani village of

Gimry Gimry (russian: Гимры) is a rural locality (a '' selo'') in Untsukulsky District of the Republic of Dagestan, Russia, located in the mountain where Imam Shamil, the third Imam of Dagestan, was born. Population: Geography Gimry is located ...

, Suleimanov studied at the Fatah al-Islami University in Damascus in 1992. In 2005, he returned to Dagestan and became the

Qadi A qāḍī ( ar, قاضي, Qāḍī; otherwise transliterated as qazi, cadi, kadi, or kazi) is the magistrate or judge of a '' sharīʿa'' court, who also exercises extrajudicial functions such as mediation, guardianship over orphans and mino ...

(judge) of the central mosque in

. In 2006, Suleimanov joined Dagestan's armed insurgency, however in 2008 he surrendered to authorities and received an amnesty. In 2009, Suleimanov rejoined the insurgency, where he would serve as both the

of the Caucasus Emirate's

Vilayat Dagestan Vilayat Dagestan (; russian: Вилайят Дагестан, Vilayyat Dagestan), formerly known as Shariat Jamaat, was an Islamist Jihadist group based in the Russian republic of Dagestan and is part of the Caucasus Emirate. The group is clos ...

branch, and the military commander of Vilayat Dagestan's Mountain Sector, which included his home village of

. In 2014, Rustam Asildarov and a number of other senior Caucasus Emirate commanders announced their defection to the

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant An Islamic state is a state that has a form of government based on Islamic law (sharia). As a term, it has been used to describe various historical polities and theories of governance in the Islamic world. As a translation of the Arabic term ...

(ISIL), swearing an oath of allegiance to its leader,

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ( ar, أبو بكر البغدادي, ʾAbū Bakr al-Baḡdādī; born Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim Ali Muhammad al-Badri al-Samarrai ( ar, إبراهيم عواد إبراهيم علي محمد البدري السامرائي, ʾIb ...

. Both, Suleimanov and Caucasus Emirate leader, Aliaskhab Kebekov, condemned this as a betrayal. Following the killing of Aliaskhab Kebekov by Russian security forces in April 2015, Suleimanov was chosen as the new leader of the Caucasus Emirate, however he was not formally announced until 2 July 2015.

Death

On 11 August 2015, Magomed Suleimanov was killed in special operations by Russian security forces during a raid near

in Russia's republic of Dagestan.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Suleimanov, Magomed 1976 births 2015 deaths Avar people Emirs of the Caucasian Emirate People shot dead by law enforcement officers in Russia Leaders of Islamic terror groups People from Dagestan