Shigabutdin Marjani

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Shigabutdin Marjani
Marjani Mosque in Kazan, Russia, built in the 1766–1770 under Catherine the Great (previously under a different name)

Shigabutdin Marjani (after Tatar Шиһабетдин Мәрҗани Şihabaddin Märcani ; born January 16, 1818 near Kazan, Russian Empire ; died April 18, 1889 in Kazan) was a Tatar Muslim theologian and historian . He was one of the key figures in jadidism . From 1850 to 1889 he was the mullah of the Marjani Mosque in Kazan .

Marjani was a versatile personality: theologian, historian, philosopher, enlightener, teacher and sheikh of the Nakshibendi - Sufi order . He studied in Central Asia in Samarkand ( Scher-Dor-Medrese ) and Bukhara ( Mir-Arab-Madrasa ) and then returned to Kazan. He is the author of more than thirty works, most of which have been published in Arabic . As a pan-Muslim thinker, he dealt with social problems and issues related to the renewal of the spiritual life of Muslims in today's society. He considered the renewal or improvement of the education system to be the appropriate means of progress. Marjani collected oral evidence from the history of the people living in Kazan and throughout the Volga - Ural region . As an ethnographer and orientalist , he developed a theory of its historical development and was recognized by the Muslim community and also by Russian and European scholars.

The Marjani Foundation was named in his honor.

The Tatar writer and scholar Khussain Faizhanov was his student. The reform project of his student Faischanow, who died in 1866, was later not published by Marjani.

Fonts (selection)

  • Mustafad al-Akhbar (a work of history)
  • Vafiyat al-Aslaf Tahiyat wa al-Ahlaf

See also

literature

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References and footnotes

  1. ↑ engl. Märcani Mosque (also: Märcani Mosque, Mardšani Mosque etc.)
  2. ↑ kazan-memory.uni-tuebingen.de: Mardzhani Mosque (Mechet 'Mardzhani) - accessed on December 4, 2017
  3. ↑ mardjani.ru: About us - accessed December 4, 2017
  4. ↑ Russian Фонд Марджани; engl. Mardjani Foundation
  5. ↑ Chussain Faischanow (1823 or 1828–1866) (Russian Хусаин Фаизханов; scientific Chusain Faizchanov; also Chusain Faizchanov)
  6. ↑ M. Kemper (1998: 449)
  7. ↑ For the authors he consulted, see Ramil Tagirovich Yuzmukhametov, p. 105.
personal data
SURNAME Marjani, Shigabutdin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Šiẖabetdin Marǧani; Shigabuddin Mardzhani; Šihab ad-din Marǧani; Sh. Mardjani; Šichabaddin Mardžani; Šichabetdin Mardžani; Šigabuddin Mardžani, Šigabutdin Mardžani; Shihabetdin Marjani; Şehabettin Mercani; Şihabeddin Mercani; Şehabeddin Mercanî; Shikhab al-Din al-Mardzhani; Şehabeddin-i Mercanî; Shihābaddīn al-Marǧānī; Shihābaddīn al-Marǧānī; Šigabutdin Mardžani; Shihabetdin Mardjani; Şehabeddin Mercani
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Tatar writer and mulla
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH near Kazan, Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 1889
Place of death Kazan , Russian Empire