Ali Mitayev

Born at Avtury to the family of Sheikh Bamat-Girey-Hajji Mitayev, he was educated at a madrasa in Grozny and in 1912 founded a madrasa and a Russian school in his native village, where Chechen, Russian and Arabic, theology, mathematics and other subjects were taught ¹. On his father's death in 1914 he was proclaimed sheikh and continuer of his father's cause ¹.

In the Civil War Mitayev led the Sharia Regiment and defended Grozny against Cossack forces in September 1918 ¹. In 1919 he allied with the Bolsheviks against the White movement on condition of Chechen autonomy and freedom of Muslim religious practice, joined the Communist Party and became a member of the Chechen revolutionary committee ². The cooperation ended in 1923; he was arrested in March 1924 accused of preparing a counter-revolutionary rising and was shot in the central prison of Rostov-on-Don in September 1925 ^{2 1}.

Two independent texts attest Mitayev's Sufi sheikhdom personally: the English article's lead names him the sheikh of a Sufi tariqa and one of the most influential Sufi sheikhs in Chechnya and Ingushetia ², and the Russian article's text records his proclamation as sheikh on his father's death and his leadership of thousands of murids ¹. His faith segment is therefore recorded as sufi, documented. No text names the order he headed. The "Sunni Islam" of the English infobox stands alone — Wikidata carries no religion value ³ — so no Sunni segment is recorded.

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