Griffin, Nicholas Caucasus:

A Journey to the Land between Christianity and Islam.

A rugged land between the Black and Caspian seas, the Caucasus is a battle ground for a fascinating and formidable clash of cultures: Russia on one side, the predominantly Muslim mountains on the other. In Caucasus, award-winning author Nicholas Griffin recounts his journey to this war torn region to explore the roots of today's conflict, centering his travelogue on Imam Shamil, the great nineteenth century Muslim warrior who commanded a quarter-century resistance against invading Russian forces.
Delving deep into the Caucasus, Griffin transcends the headlines trumpeting Chechen insurgency to give the land and its conflicts dimension: evoking the weather, terrain, and geography alongside national traditions, religious affiliations, and personal legends as barriers to peaceful co-existence. In focusing his tale on Shamil while retracing his steps, Griffin compellingly demonstrates the way history repeats itself.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgments and Thanks

Foreword

1 Jagged Land2 Based in Baku

3 Back in Time

4 Reverberation5 Living History

6 Born in the Land of Splintered Stars

7 Three Hundred Tongues

8 The First Imam9 Heading North

10 The Consolidation of Power

11 Lying in Wait12 Gambits and Guile

13 Staggered Borders and Soft Lands

14 Titled Characters

15 Georgian Nights16 Hostages of Worth

17 Walking over the Past

18 Guests of the Mountains

19 The Highwire of History

20 Towards Freedom21 Tours and Travels

22 Driven from the Mountains

23 The Echoes of Blood

24 Into the Black Garden25 The Shadow of Shamil

26 The History of Hostafes

27 The Resurrection of Shamil

28 A Time to Leave

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography and Further Reading

Index

Subjects:
HISTORY: Asian History
HISTORY: Military History
RELIGION: Islam

Link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamil