Ali Mitayev

In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Bamat-Gireyevich and the family name is Mitayev.

Ali Bamat-Gireyevich Mitayev (Russian: Али Бамат-Гиреевич Митаев; 1881–1925) was a Chechen religious and military leader. The sheikh of a Sufi tariqa, he was one of the leaders of the Chechen anti-Soviet movement in the 1920s.

Ali Mitayev
Али Митаев
Mitayev in 1910
Title	Sheikh
Personal life
Born	1881 Avtury, Terek Oblast, Caucasus Viceroyalty
Died	1925 (aged 43–44) Rostov-on-Don, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Region	Chechnya
Religious life
Religion	Sunni Islam
Military career
Allegiance	Russian SFSR Sharia Regiment
Battles / wars	Russian Civil War Battle of the Northern Caucasus (1918–1919) [ru] 1919–1920 North Caucasus uprising [ru]

Born in the aul of Avtury, Mitayev was educated at a madrasa in Grozny and, in 1912, founded a similar school in his native village. During the Russian Revolution and the ensuing Russian Civil War, Mitayev was one of the most influential Sufi sheikhs in Chechnya and Ingushetia. In 1919 he forged an alliance with the Bolsheviks against the White movement provided the Bolsheviks would guarantee Chechen autonomy and Muslim religious practices within the Soviet system. Mitayev himself joined the Communist Party and became a member of the Chechen revkom. Mitayev's cooperation with the Soviets ended in 1923, when he declared a jihad to the Bolsheviks and attempted a coup. In April 1924 he was arrested as a "counter-revolutionary", "saboteur", and "clerical bourgeois nationalist" and was accused of preparing a joint Georgian-Chechen rebellion against the Soviet rule. He was tried in Rostov-on-Don and shot in 1925.^[1][2]

One of the main murids of Mitayev was Magomed Shataev.^[3]