, birth_date = 1972 , death_date = 6 July 2005 , birth_place = Tsumadinsky District, Dagestan,

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War of Dagestan The Dagestan War (russian: Дагестанская война), also known as the Invasion of Militants in Dagestan (russian: Вторжение боевиков в Дагестан) began when the Chechnya-based Islamic International Peacekeep ...

Second Chechen War The Second Chechen War (russian: Втора́я чече́нская война́, ) took place in Chechnya and the border regions of the North Caucasus between the Russian Federation and the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, from August 1999 ...

Rasul Makasharipov (russian: Расул Макашарипов) (1972 – July 6, 2005), nicknamed Muslim and also known as

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Rasul, was a Dagestani Islamist leader in southern

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. He was the founder of the militant group Dzhennet and later created the rebel group Shariat Jamaat, which sought to unite

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Muslims under Islamic rule and later became part of the Caucasian Front.

Life

Rasul Makasharipov was a native of Dagestan's south-western Tsumadinsky District, bordering Chechnya and inhabited by

Caucasian Avars The Avars, also known as ''Maharuls'' ( Avar: , , "mountaineers") are a Northeast Caucasian ethnic group. The Avars are the largest of several ethnic groups living in the Russian republic of Dagestan. The Avars reside in the North Caucasus b ...

. In 1997 his father expelled him from the house and he moved to Chechnya, where he became an Avar interpreter of

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warlord Khattab and the rogue Chechen field commander

Shamil Basayev Shamil Salmanovich Basayev ( ce, Салман ВоӀ Шамиль ; russian: Шамиль Салманович Басаев; 14 January 1965 – 10 July 2006), also known by his kunya "Abu Idris", was a senior military commander in the Cheche ...

during their abortive

Invasion of Dagestan The Dagestan War (russian: Дагестанская война), also known as the Invasion of Militants in Dagestan (russian: Вторжение боевиков в Дагестан) began when the Chechnya-based Islamic International Peacekeep ...

in 1999. Makasharipov surrendered to Dagestani authorities in 2000, but was released under an

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a year later. Within a year he was assembling his own organization, finding willing recruits from young Dagestanis who had suffered at the hands of the police. According to one of his followers, "Makasharipov spoke about the necessity to stop persecution and

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of Muslims in Dagestan. He said this could be done by killing policemen." (''The Moscow Times'', March 15, 2005) The organization became known as the Dzhennet (

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: ''Paradise'') group and soon started assassinating high-ranking police officials, investigators and prosecutors; the group was destroyed by the Russian crackdown in 2002, with Makasharipov being reportedly the sole survivor who remained free.Military Jama’ats in the North Caucasus: A Continuing Threat
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, September 2006 The same year, Makasharipov found his new group, the Shariat Jamaat, which in May 2005 became part of the Caucasian Front established by the new

President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria The president of Ichkeria, formally the president of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria was the head of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria from 1991 to 2007, the Islamic Republic that existed until the victory of the Russian Federation in the Second ...

Abdul-Halim Sadulayev after the death of

Aslan Maskhadov Aslan (Khalid) Aliyevich Maskhadov (russian: Асла́н (Хали́д) Али́евич Масха́дов; ce, Масхадан Али-воӀ Аслан (Халид), Masxadan Ali-voj Aslan (Xalid); 21 September 1951 – 8 March 2005) was ...

. On January 15, 2005, the FSB reported his death in an attack on a Jamaat safehouse, but Makasharipov surfaced four days later to refute these claims. Makasharipov was eventually killed in a shootout with Russian troops on July 6, 2005;SHARIA JAMAAT CONFIRMS DEATH OF ITS "EMIR"
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, July 14, 2005 his deputy Rappani Khalilov became his successor as the leader of the Shariat Jamaat.

References

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