Editing Imam Shamil (section)

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{{Infobox royalty
| name         = Imam Shamil
| image        = Shamil by Denier.jpg
| caption      = Shamil in 1859
| religion     = [[Sunni]] [[Islam]]
| succession   = [[Caucasian Imamate|Imam of Chechnya and Dagestan]]
| reign        = 1834–1859
| predecessor  = [[Hamzat Bek]]
| successor    = Overthrown by the [[Russian Empire]]
| father       = Dengau
| mother       = 
| birth_date   = 26 June 1797
| birth_place  = [[Gimry]], [[Dagestan]], [[Avar Khanate|Avar Nutsaldom]]
| death_date   = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1871|2|4|1797|6|26}}
| death_place  = [[Medina]], [[Habesh Eyalet]], [[Ottoman Empire]]
| place of burial = [[Jannatul Baqi]], Medina
| signature = Imam Shamil signature.svg
}}
 
'''Imam Shamil''' ({{langx|ar|الشيخ شامل|al-Šaykh Šāmil}}; {{langx|av|Шейх Шамил|Sheykh Shamil}}; {{langx|ce|имам Шемал|imam Shemal}};<ref>Гапуров Ш. А. Тяжёлые страницы истории Чечни //Таллам. – 2015. – №. 1. – С. 24-29.</ref> {{langx|kum|Шамил|Şamil}}; {{langx|ru|Имам Шамиль}}; 26 June 1797 – 4 February 1871) was the political, military, and spiritual leader of North Caucasian resistance to [[Russian Empire|Imperial Russia]] in the 1800s,<ref>{{cite book
 |title=A History of Russia
 |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofrussia00rias
 |url-access=registration
 |author=Nicholas V. Riasanovsky
 |edition= 4th
 |publisher=Oxford University Press
 |year=1984
 |page=[https://archive.org/details/historyofrussia00rias/page/389 389]
 |chapter=Chapter 29: The Reign of Alexander II, 1855-81
|isbn=978-0-19-503361-8
 }}</ref> the third [[Imam]] of the [[Caucasian Imamate]] (1840–1859), and a [[Sunni Muslim]] [[Sheikh (Sufism)|sheikh]] of the [[Naqshbandi|Naqshbandi Sufis]].<ref>[http://www.islamdag.info/story/551 The Great Shamil, Imam of Daghestan and Chechnya, Shaykh of Naqshbandi tariqah]</ref>