Batal Hajji Belkhoroev Белхарой Батал-Хьажа | |
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| Title | Sheikh, Hajji, Ustaz |
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| Born | Batal 1821 |
| Died | 1914 (aged 89–90) |
| Resting place | Ziyarat of Batal Hajji, Surkhakhi, Ingushetia |
| Religion | Islam |
| Nationality | Ingush |
| Home town | Somyokh/Surkhakhi,[a] |
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| Era | Modern |
| Denomination | Sunni |
| Lineage | Belkharoi |
| Education | Unknown |
| Tariqa | Qadiri |
| Muslim leader | |
| Teacher | Kunta-Haji |
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Batal Hajji Belkhoroev[b] (Ingush: Белхарой Батӏал-Хьажа, romanized: Belxaroj Bathal-X́aža; c. 1824–1914)[c] was an Ingush sheikh of the Qadiri Sufi order (tariqa) who founded his own independent Sufi suborder (wird).[d]
At early age both of his parents died, after which, he moved to Chechnya. There Batal Hajji met Kunta-Haji, a Chechen Sufi sheikh who became his mentor. He was an outlaw (abrek) and supporter of Imam Shamil during the Caucasian War. Batal Hajji founded his own independent wird upon the arrest and exile of Kunta-Haji in 1864 or upon Kunta-Haji's death in 1867. Today it continues to exists amongst Ingush, and partly, amongst the Chechens and Kumyks. In 1911, after being accused of harbouring the Chechen outlaw Zelimkhan he was exiled to Kozelsk, later dying there in 1914.
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