Ğälimcan İbrahimov
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Ğälimcan İbrahimov (, ; 1887–1938) was a
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public figure, writer and linguist. The Institute of Language,
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and Art of the Tatarstan Academy of Sciences is named after him.


Biography

Ğälimcan İbrahimov was born in 1887 in the village of Sultanmuratovo in the family of Ğirfan İbrahimov, who was an imam in this village, and his wife, Bibixäsänä. He received his primary education from his father, then he studied in the madrasah of Keşänle, and in the Russian-language
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school in Soltanmorat. In 1898–1905 and 1906–1908 he studied at Wäliä (Orendurg) and Ğäliä (Ufa) madrasahs respectively. After İbrahimof was expelled from Ğäliä, he collaborated with various Tatar-language newspapers, such as ''Älislax'', ''Yoldız'', ''Waqıt'', and ''Añ'', and worked as a teacher in modern-day Qazaqstan, Ural, and vicinities of Ästerxan. In 1912–1913, İbrahimov attended
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as a free listener but was arrested by the police for participating in the underground Muslim revolutionary circle and remained under surveillance until the February Revolution. Upon release from prison, he worked as an executive secretary of ''Añ'' journal ( Qazan); then, in 1915, İbrahimov began to work as a teacher in the Ğäliä madrasah. After the February Revolution, İbrahimov, together with Fatix Säyfi-Qazanlı and Şärif Sünçäläy began to publish a newspaper called ''İrek ''(Freedom); the same year he was elected to Millät Mäclese, where he was a member of the (supporters of territorial autonomy) faction and participated in the activities of its legislative and financial commissions. He was also elected a deputy of the
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from
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. In 1918 together with
Mullanur Waxitof Mullanur Mullacan ulı Waxitov Mullanur Waxitov (Tatar Cyrillic and , ), also spelled Vakhitov (10 August 1885 – August 1918) was a Volga Tatars, Tatar revolutionary active in the Russian Revolution. Early life Born in Kazan, he entered sec ...
and Şärif Manatof participated in the creation of the Commissariat for Muslim Affairs of Inner Russia under the RSFSR's
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. In 1919–1920 İbrahimov was a member of the Central Muslim Military Collegium, head of the Press Department Editorial Board of the Central Bureau of Communist Organizations of the Peoples of the East under the Central Committee of the RCP(b), and an employee of the ''Qızıl Şäreq'' (Red East) magazine. From 1920, he worked at the People's Commissariat of Education of
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, and was the chief editor of ''Bezneñ yul'' (Our way) and ''Mäğärif '' (Education) journals. In 1925–1927, İbrahimof was a head of Academic Center of the People's Commissariat of the Republic Education of Tatar ASSR. He retired in 1927 due to illness in 1927 and lived in
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(
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) until 1937, when he was arrested as a part of falsified case of "right-wing Trotskyite anti-soviet nationalist organization." İbrahimof was transferred to Qazan's Pelätän prison and died shortly after in its hospital of
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and tuberculous pleurisy. He was posthumously rehabilitated in 1955 The at the is named after him. There is a museum dedicated to İbrahimov in his home village.


Works

İbrahimof's first literary work, , was published in ''Älislax'' newspaper in 1907. Other works indclude (Young hearts, 1912), (Our days, 1919), (Kazakh girl, 1924), (Deep roots, 1928) novels, (Tatar woman's fate, 1910), (Red flowers, 1921), (People, 1923, dedicated to events related to the famine in the Volga area) stories, (New people, 1920)
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, etc. His collected works were published in 1974–1987 and in 2000 in Qazan. İbrahimof wrote works on Tatar philology and linguistics, such as (Tatar grammar, 1911), (How to teach the Tatar language?, 1916), (The matter of spelling, 1924). Also, Ibrahimof wrote articles about
Şihabetdin Märcani Şihabetdin Märcani (, Tatar alphabet#Cyrillic version, Cyrillic: , ; 1818–1889) was a Volga Tatars, Tatar Hanafi Maturidi theologian and historian. He studied in madrassas of Tashkichu (near Kazan), Bukhara and Samarkand. Beginning in 1850 h ...
, Qäyüm Nasıyri, and historical and publicistic works on revolutionary movement among Tatars.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ibrahimov, Galimcan 1887 births 1938 deaths Tatar revolutionaries Muslims from the Russian Empire Great Purge victims from Russia Soviet rehabilitations Russian Constituent Assembly members