Biography of Bigeev


He is often quoted in their sermons by modern Muslim religious figures; Sometimes, sometimes for the first time, his works created at the beginning of the 20th century are published. More and more research works about Muse Biguev. A special role in the study of the biography and heritage of Musa Bigeev belongs to the St. Petersburg researcher Almire Tagirjanova. The name of the deep expert on the history of the Muslim community of St.

Petersburg Almira Tagirjanova is well known thanks to her numerous publications, including in the Encyclopedic Dictionary “Islam in St. Petersburg”, Medina Publishing House, M. Novgorod, Tatar periodicals, and local history articles. A. Tagirjanova’s interest in the personality of Musa Biguev is not accidental: she is the wife of the grandson of Biguev.

Biography of Bigeev

Fragments of these unique sources were introduced into scientific circulation in the fundamental work of Almira Tagirjanova “The Book of Muse of Efendi, his time and contemporaries” Kazan, in general, in the book of A., the extraordinary personality of Musa Bigheev is shown against the background of the era, the history of jadidism, the folding of Tatar ideological and socio-political attitudes of the early XX century, the Bolshevik policies to the policy of the Bolsheviks Islam in the first years of Soviet power.

At all the listed stages of the history of Russian Muslims, Musa Bigheev was in the spotlight. It is worth noting here that the correctness of writing the surname of the thinker remains unresolved, which is generally characteristic of transmitting Tatar surnames in Russian. The descendants of Musa Bigeev consider the correct form of writing his surname "Bigeev." It was this surname that his mother, his brother, the famous Tatar writer Zakir Bigheev, was of his wife -, his wife.

This form is recorded in archival sources. The form of the Bigiy, according to Almira Tagirjanova, appeared when transmitting the name of Bigia from the Tatar language during the life of the theologian and entrenched among Kazan historians after the two -volume work of the Soviet religious scholar I. Kreklev “History of Religions”, where the theologian was mentioned.

In the biography of Musa Bigeev, there are still many pages requiring a detailed study. So, the analysis of the special period of Biguev’s life is important - the middle of the X. Even fragmentary materials show how great the stay of Musa Bigeev was in the Muslim community of Moscow, which stood on the threshold of tragic tests. Musa Bigheev was well familiar with the Moscow Tatars, he repeatedly arrived and lived in Moscow for a long time.

From the diary of his wife - the ICMI Biegeeva, it is known that in April of the year, before the start of the first All -Russian Muslim congress, Musa Bigheev and his family lived in the apartment of a native of Azeev Garif Burnashev. It was probably the well -known among Moscow Muslims Arif Khusainovich Burnashev - after - a representative of a rich merchant family specialized in the processing and sale of goat fluff, which was related to the sale of Karakul.

Arith Burnashev himself owned the house in the philistine part of Moscow now, the circle of Kasimovsky and Azeevsky Tatars - educated immigrants from noble merchants, was well familiar to Bigheev. Already after the emigration of Musa Bigheev, his daughter, Maryam -, who remained in the USSR, will marry a representative of the famous Kasimovsky kind of Akbulatov - Osman he was repressed in the year.

The other daughter of Bigeev - Hind - became the wife of Abdulhak Karamyshev - the son of Kasimov's furrier Ibrahim Shamsetdinovich Karamyshev. When Musa Bigheev freed himself from his arrest, he settled in Zamoskvorechye, on Bolshaya Tatarskaya Street in the house 24 apartment 10, where he was received by the Khakimjanov family. The head of the family, Khamid Khakimjanov, was a scorry, closely related to the trading families of Moscow Tatar-Mehkhchikov, an active parishioner of the mosque on Bolshaya Tatar Street.

At the beginning of the 20th century, he lived in Kulja West Turkestan, where there was then a rich Tatar community. It is noteworthy that the imam in Kulje was Abdulla Shamsutdinov - ,.