Sadwaqas Ghylmani

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Sadwaqas Ghylmani
Qadi of Qadiyat of Kazakh SSR
In office
1952–1972
Personal
Born1890
Died24 April 1972(1972-04-24) (aged 81–82)
Resting placeKensai Cemetery
ReligionIslam
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceHanafi
Main interest(s)Islamic theology, poetry

Sadwaqas (Saken, Sadvakas) Ghylmani (Gilmanov, Gelmanov) (Kazakh: Сәдуақас Ғылмани, Säduaqas Ğylmani; 1890 – April 24, 1972) was a long-serving qadi of Kazakhstan (Kazakh SSR),[1][2] imam-khatib and member of the Muslim Council for Central Asia and Kazakhstan.[3]

Early life[edit]

Sadwaqas Ghylmani was born in 1890 in Maltabar village (aul) (Akmolinsk Oblast of Russian Empire) in Bashkir-origin family. His grandfather Salmen Muhamediyarovich Gazin (1856–1939) and great-grandfather Muhamediyar Mukhtarovich Gazin (1807–1870) were mullahs.

Career[edit]

From 1929 to 1946 he was persecuted by Soviet authorities. In 1946 he became a mullah (imam) in a mosque in Akmolinsk (modern Astana, capital of Kazakhstan). In 1952, qadi (Kazakh: қазы) of Kazakhstani Qadiyat (Kazakh: Қазият) Abd al-Ghaffar Shamsutdinov appointed him as his successor. Sadwaqas Ghylmani held this position until his death on April 24, 1972. He is buried at the Kensai cemetery in Almaty.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Tasar, Eren (November 1, 2017). Soviet and Muslim: The Institutionalization of Islam in Central Asia. Oxford University Press. p. 273. ISBN 9780190652128.
  2. ^ Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic. Novosti Press Agency Publishing House. 1967. p. 24.
  3. ^ Bundy, Edgar C. (1966). Soviet and Muslim: The Institutionalization of Islam in Central Asia. Devin-Adair Co. p. 97.

Bibliography[edit]

  • Ғылмани, С. (2015). edit. Ә. Қ. Муминов, А. Дж. Франк (ed.). Заманымызда болған ғұламалардың ғұмыр тарихтары. Vol. 1 (2 ed.). Алма-Ата: Дайк-Пресс. ISBN 978-601-290-072-9.
  • Қамзабекұлы, Д. (2012). "Садуақас Ғылмани мұрасы: Көкейкестілігі және жүйелену негізі". Л. Н. Гумилев атындағы ЕҰУ Хабаршысы (1 (86)).