Hamzat Bek — English Wikipedia

English Wikipedia article on Hamzat Bek (Gamzat-bek); used for entity facts only. Its text states expressly, twice, that he was not a member of the Naqshbandiyya-Khalidiyya Sufi order and never joined it, unlike his predecessor Ghazi Muhammad and his successor Shamil; it gives his birth in 1789 at Gotsatl, his education in Shafi'i law, his death on 1 October [O.S. 19 September] 1834 at Khunzakh, and his immediate succession to Ghazi Muhammad as imam.