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Jibril
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Jibril

 or Jabrail

In Islam, the archangel who acts as intermediary between God and humankind and who bore divine revelations to Muhammad and previous prophets. His biblical counterpart is Gabriel. Jibril aided Muhammad in times of crisis and guided him during his ascent into heaven. Muslim belief holds that Jibril appeared to Adam after his expulsion from Paradise to show him how to write, raise wheat, and work iron and also that Jibril aided Moses in delivering the Israelites from Egypt.
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Even Jabrail Gakayev, a pro-Moscow Chechen scientist, states unambiguously: 'The inappropriate use of force against peaceable inhabitants based on so-called 'collective responsibility' is causing the growth of anti-Russian attitudes, negating the effect of all of the social and economic programmes, expanding the social base of support for the Chechen insurgents.
Momentous shifts in the ideology of the Chechen resistance by Souleimanov, Emil / Contemporary Review
 
 
 
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