Munawwar Qari Abdurrashidkhan ogli

Munawwar Qari Abdurrashidkhan ogli (Cyrillic Мунаввар Қори Абдурашидхон ўғли; Arabic name ) (*1878 in Tashkent; † 1931) was a leading Jadidist of late Tsarist Turkestan. Like other Jadids, Munnawwar Qari worked as author, poet, teacher, journalist and in other occupations. He became a victim of the Great Purge.
Life.
Munawwar Qari was the youngest child in a family of Islamic scholars and received his education in Tashkent and Bukhara. In 1901, he opened Tashkent's first Maktab to follow the Jadids new method of teaching. He also wrote textbooks for use in schools and published literary works of other authors, while publishing and editing "The Sun", one of the first independent newspapers in Russian Turkestan.
After the Russian Revolution, he continued working as a teacher, but was arrested and deported to a Gulag camp in 1925 and shot in 1931. His grave can be found in Moscow's Yagankovo cemetery.