Uzun-Haji

Born at Salta to a peasant family, Uzun-Haji studied from the age of seven under local ulama as a murid; among his teachers was Abdurrahman-Hajji as-Suguri, the sheikh of a Naqshbandi tariqa from the village of Sogratl, from whom he obtained an ijazah ¹. The Russian article independently records the same discipleship: he was a murid of Sheikh Abdurrahman-Hajji of Sogratl and received from him authorisation for sheikhdom after eleven years of study ². He then travelled to the Ottoman Empire to further his Islamic studies ¹.

A political exile before the Revolution, Uzun-Haji was recognised in May 1919 as Imam of Dagestan and Chechnya in rivalry with Najmuddin of Gotzo, broke with Najmuddin over his dealings with Denikin, and in September 1919 proclaimed the North Caucasian Emirate under Ottoman protection, ruling it as emir until his death ¹. He died of typhus at Vedeno on 30 March 1920 ^{1 2}.

Two independent texts attest Uzun-Haji's Naqshbandi affiliation personally: the English article's lead names him sheikh of a Naqshbandi Sufi tariqa and its text records his murid discipleship and ijazah under the Naqshbandi sheikh as-Suguri ¹, and the Russian article's text independently records the discipleship and his authorisation for sheikhdom ². His faith segment is therefore recorded as sufi, documented. The further specification "Sunni" stands only in the articles' infoboxes, and Wikidata's value is Islam in general ³; no text names his madhhab, so no Sunni segment is recorded.

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