Mukhlisa Bubi

Mukhlisa Bubi is the sister of Gabdulla and Gubaidulla Bubi. She was educated in the madrasah of her home village. In 1901, M. Bubi, together with her brothers and their wives, founded a six-year Tatar women’s school in Izh-Bobye, and was its head. Along with religious subjects, various laical disciplines were also taught there, and since 1905, they began teaching Russian. In 1907, a single-grade female Russian and Tatar school was opened at the expense of the Sarapul district council, which became an integral part of the women’s madrasah.
In 1907, permission was obtained from the Sarapul school Council to take exams for the title of teacher (mugallima) of the primary Tatar school and issue certificates to persons who passed these exams. The madrasah became the first educational institution that trained teachers for women’s madrasahs and schools. After the destruction of the men’s madrasah and the arrest of the Bubi brothers in 1911, the women’s school was also closed in 1912. M. Bubi moved to Troitsk, Orenburg province, where she headed an elementary girls’ school opened in 1910. At the same time, since 1913, she taught religious studies at a girls’ gymnasium.
In 1914, with the help of merchants the Yaushevs, M. Bubi managed to open a women’s madrasah. In 1915, she achieved the opening of a female teachers’ seminary. At the First All-Russian Muslim Congress (the city of  Moscow, May 1-10, 1917) she was elected as a member of the Spiritual Directorate of Muslims and a kadi. Since 1917, she worked in Ufa, headed the department of family affairs of the Spiritual Directorate, was engaged in maintaining metric books, regulating family affairs, work on conversion to Islam, etc.
M. Bubi conducted extensive organizational and educational work among women, made articles in the newspapers such as “Ulfat”, “Akhbar”, “Vakyt”, in the magazines “Syuyumbike”, “Islam mazhallase”, in which she highlighted the role of women in the family and society, the tasks facing her. She paid special attention to the fact that the preservation of the language, national and religious traditions is the main duty of a woman. On November 20, 1937, she was arrested on charges of participating in the “counterrevolutionary insurgent nationalist organization of Bashkiria” and sentenced to death (December 23, 1937). Rehabilitated posthumously in 1960.
 
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