Abdurashid Gumerovich Ibragimov

He was born on April 23, 1857 in the city of Tara, Tobolsk province in the family of a mullah. He received primary home education; from 1867, he studied at madrasa of the village of Almenevo. At the age of 17, he became an orphan and left for Tyumen, where he continued his studies at Yana Avyl madrasah, then at madrasah of the village of Kshkar. In 1878-1879, he taught in the Akmola region. In 1879-1885, he continued his education in Medina, Mecca, and Istanbul; in 1885, he returned to Russia. Since 1885, he served as the imam khatib of the cathedral mosque in Tara, where he was also a madrasa teacher. In 1892-1894, A. Ibragimov served as the cadi of the Orenburg Mohammedan Spiritual Assembly. In 1897-1900, he traveled from Istanbul to Egypt, Palestine, and the Hejaz, then to France, Italy, Austria, Serbia, Bulgaria, through the South of Russia to the Caucasus, along the Caspian coast to Bukhara, Turkestan, the Semirechye region. In Istanbul, he published the book under the title “Utrennyaya Zvezda” (“Morning Star”); for its harsh criticism of the Russification policy of tsarism towards Muslims, it was banned in Russia, but it was distributed illegally. Since 1900, he published Mirat magazine (“Mirror”, 1900-1909), Olfet newspaper (Friendship, 1905-1907), Nezhat magazine (Salvation, 1907), and et-Tilmiz newspaper in Arabic (“Disciple”, 1906-1907) in his printing house in St. Petersburg. In 1905-1906 , A. Ibragimov took part in the work of Ittifaq al-Muslimin congresses, was a member of the Central Committee of this party, participated in the development of its program documents. In 1907, he was forced to sell the printing house and go on a trip: East Turkestan, Samarkand, Bukhara, Semirechye. In 1908, he went on a long trip to the countries of Southeast Asia, gave lectures on Islam in Japan, met Prince Ito. In 1909, The Islamic Trading Society was created by A. Ibragimov initiative with the aim of spreading Islam among the Japanese in Tokyo. In 1911, during the war of Italy against Turkey for the seizure of its North African possessions, A. Ibragimov secretly came to Tripoli to help the Muslims who were fighting; he fought for the unification of Muslim organizations to provide armed resistance. During the First World War, he participated in actions to protect the interests of the Austrian German bloc, which included Turkey. In 1917-1921, he was in Russia, pinned his hopes on the Soviet government in solving the problems of Muslim peoples. In 1922-1933, he lived in Turkey, since 1933 – in Japan. In 1937, on his initiative, a cathedral mosque was built in Tokyo, in which he became an imam khatib. He died in Tokyo on August 17, 1944.
 
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