Said-Khasanom Abumuslimov

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Dr. Said-Khasanom Abumuslimov (also spelled Sait-Khassan Abumuslimov) is a historian, writer and publicist and was acting vice president of the breakaway Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (1996 – 1997) under former president Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev. He also served in a number of positions under Dzhokhar Dudaev.

In 1974 Abumuslimov and Khozh-Ahmed Noukhaev co-founded the Chechen separatists group Obshina. He studied History and German Language at the Lomonosov University in Moscow, finishing in 1981 and in 1990 he received his PhD. Between 1990 and 1994 Sait-Khassan Abumuslimov lectured History at the State University in Grozny and he also took part in the drafting of the Chechen Constitution.

Since 1999, Dr. Abumuslimov has lived outside Chechnya and has been conducting academic research on different topics. He is member of the Academic Forum for International Security and of the German-Caucasian Society.

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