Vilayat Dagestan
| Vilayat Dagestan Вилайят Дагестан |
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| Participant in the Second Chechen War, Insurgency in the North Caucasus | |
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| Active | 2002 – 7 October 2007 (As Shariat Jamaat) 7 October 2007 – present (As Vilayat Dagestan) |
| Leaders |
Rasul Makasharipov (Emir Rasul) † Rappani Khalilov (Rabbani) † Ilgas Malachiyev (Emir Abdul Madzhid) † Omar Sheikhulayev (Emir Muaz) † Umalat Magomedov (Emir Al Bara) † Magomed Vagabov (Emir Seyfullah) † Israpil Velijanov (Emir Hassan) † Ibragimkhalil Daudov (Emir Salikh) † Rustam Asildarov (Emir Abu Muhammad) † Said Kharakansky † |
| Area of operations | Russian North Caucasus (Dagestan) |
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| Originated as | Jannet (2002–2004) |
| Allies |
Vilayat Galgaycho United Vilayat of Kabarda, Balkaria and Karachay Vilayat Nokhchicho |
| Opponents | Russia, Azerbaijan |
Vilayat Dagestan (Province of Dagestan, Russian: Вилайят Дагестан), formerly known as Shariat Jamaat, is an Islamist Jihadist group based in the Russian republic of Dagestan and is part of the Caucasus Emirate. The group, created during the Second Chechen War in favor of Dagestan's independence as an Islamic state, is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Russian security and military personnel, officials, and civilians. The group is closely associated with the separatist conflicts in the nearby Russian republics of Chechnya and Ingushetia.
The Jamaat Shariat claims to be "legitimate authority of Dagestan" with the aim of establishing a "fair society" based on sharia law. To achieve this end, the Jamaat considers it legitimate to target police and security officials and some civilians such as the government-loyalist Muslim clergy and clerics of the Russian Orthodox Church. The Jamaat says that peace talks with Russia are hypothetically possible, but only when Russia withdraws its troops from the region and provides security guarantees. Otherwise, the group claims, it is prepared for a long-term guerrilla war of attrition that may be broadened to encompass the whole of the Russian Federation, including Moscow and St. Petersburg. As of 2010, the ongoing violence has plunged the multiethnic and corruption- and poverty-plagued republic into near civil war.
Shariat Jamaat was established by Emir Rasul (Rasul Makasharipov) following the near-destruction of the much smaller Dagestani terrorist group called Jennet (Arabic: Paradise). In 1999, Makasharipov fought against the government during the abortive rebel invasion of Dagestan from Chechnya. After moving to fight in Chechnya, he went back to his homeland in 2002 and set up Jennet (Dzhennet), whose principal objective was to eliminate senior officers of the security forces in Dagestan.
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