Kunta-Haji Kishiev

Born at Isti-Su (Melcha-Khi) to Kishi and Khedi, he received a religious education and studied under the Naqshbandi sheikh Gezi-Haji of Zandak ^{1 2}. On his hajj in the late 1850s he visited the tomb of Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani in Baghdad and became a devoted follower of the Qadiriyya, whose teaching he preached on his return ^{1 2}. He taught his murids — some five thousand by the early 1860s — the daily prayers and the loud circular zikr, and rejected further war against Russia ¹.

Summoned before Imam Shamil at Vedeno, he was examined and, by the differing accounts, condemned or cleared ². After his arrest in January 1864, some three thousand of his followers, armed only with daggers, tried to free him at Shali and were dispersed with heavy loss ¹. He died in exile at Ustyuzhna on 19 (31) May 1867 ²; his followers hold that he did not die ².

Two independent texts attest Kunta-Haji's Qadiriyya affiliation personally: the English article calls him a follower of the Qadiriyya Sufi order and records his devotion to it after Baghdad ¹, and the Russian article names him founder of Haji-Muridiyya, a variety of the Qadiriyya ². His faith segment is therefore recorded as sufi, documented, and his membership of the Qadiriyya is written as a relation. The "Sunni" of the English infobox stands alone — Wikidata's value is Islam in general ³ — so no Sunni segment is recorded.

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