MOSCOW, December 3 (RAPSI) – The Oktyabrsky District Court in southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don handed down a 130,000-ruble ($2,650) fine to Gadzhibek Ismailov for creating a cell of the prohibited extremist religious organization Nurcular, RIA Novosti reports on Wednesday.

The court also ruled that the 1,856 extremist books confiscated at Ismailov’s apartment be destroyed.

According to the regional Federal Security Service (FSB) office, Ismailov was a leader in the Rostov branch of Nurcular and acted as a mullah during religious services in his apartment.

Half of the religious books found in Ismailov’s apartment were written by the sect’s spiritual leader, and some of them were on the Justice Ministry’s black list of extremist materials. Ismailov admitted that he was a Nurcular adherent and that he worked to spread the sect’s teachings in the Muslim community of the Rostov Region.

Nurcular is a structured international extremist religious organization that strives to create a global Islamic caliphate. The movement’s adepts set up schools to promote its ideals and goals. These units operate secretly in Russia.

Nurcular was declared an extremist organization and prohibited in Russia by decision of the Supreme Court in 2008, because Nurcular encouraged a positive view of death with a willingness to sacrifice one’s life in the interests of the teachings.