Bilu Gaitaev (; 1852 — 1925) was a Chechen

military leader Military ranks is a system of hierarchical relationships within armed forces, police, intelligence agencies, paramilitary groups, and other institutions organized along military lines, such as youth groups, chivalric orders, religious orders, an ...

and religious figure who took part in the

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. Under Gaitaev's leadership, Chechens took part in major battles against the

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. Bilu was of the Gendargnoy

teip A ''teip'' (also ''taip'', ''tayp'', ''teyp''; Chechen language, Chechen and Ingush language, Ingush: тайпа, romanized: ''taypa'' , ''family'', ''kin'', ''clan'', ''tribe''Нохчийн-Оьрсийн словарь (Chechen-Russian Dict ...

and Muzhgi-Nek'e (branch of a teip).

Biography

Gaitayev fought against the

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for many years, so during the

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he supported the

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, believing that they would let Chechens live by their own rules and

Sharia law Sharia, Sharī'ah, Shari'a, or Shariah () is a body of religious law that forms a part of the Islamic tradition based on scriptures of Islam, particularly the Qur'an and hadith. In Islamic terminology ''sharīʿah'' refers to immutable, inta ...

. However, after the war Gaitaev was declared an enemy of the Soviet state and sentenced to death, which was carried out in 1925 in the

Rostov Oblast Rostov Oblast ( rus, Росто́вская о́бласть, r=Rostovskaya oblastʹ, p=rɐˈstofskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located in the Southern Federal District. The oblast ...

.История Чечни с древнейших времен до наших дней. — Грозный: ГУП "Книжное издательство", 2008. — С. 207. — 832 с. — .

References

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