Surakat I

Surakat I or Suraka –13th and the son of previous ruler Saratan.

Origin The discussion about the dates of Surakat's life has not yet been fully resolved. There are various opinions, which are mainly based on Arabic sources. Amri Shikhsaidov and Alexander Crishtopa based on the message of the historical work "The story of Argvani" suggests that he was born around 1190 and died in 1250 years, a few years before the first campaign of the ghazis on Khunzakh.

Muhammad Rafi writes about Surakat in "Tarikhi Dagestan" that he was the lord of the Avar lands, an apostate strong tyrant, a bearer of evil, violence and misfortune with the title nutsal (ruler) – the son of Sirtan. Not getting along with the Khunzakh people, he together with his warriors, servants and slaves moved to the remote village of Tanusi from Khunzakh. ) and began to rule in their lands Masumbey from the family of Sheikh Ahmad, a descendant of Hamza, the uncle of the prophet Muhammad

Religion According to Abbasgulu Bakikhanov, Surakat is a convert from Muslims to pagans, according to another version, to Christianity. Regarding the faith of Surakat and the entire population of Nutsaldom, the majority indicates that the population was Christian of the Georgian-Greek Orthodox Church. In the "Tarikhi of Dagestan", Surakat is simply called "infidel", that is, not a Muslim, but the population as idolaters. In the later compiled sources of the "Chronicle of the Nakhchu Tribe" and "Tarikhi Argvani" of the 18th century, he and his brother are called Jews at all. However, in the village of Khunzakh two Arabic inscriptions were found on a local stone of Islamic content, which according to the handwriting can be attributed to the 11th–12th centuries.