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Ibrohim Mo‘minov (Russified form Ibragim Muminov) (Uzbek: Ibrohim Moʻminov, November 7, 1908, Tezguzar – July 22, 1974, Tashkent) was an Uzbek intellectual and scholar. Founder of the philosophical school in Uzbekistan.

Early life

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Mo‘minov initially studied at maktab – a Muslim school, and after 1920, opportunities for studying at the Soviet school appeared. In 1922–1927 he studied at the Institute of Education in Bukhara, since 1925 he was a teacher at the school.

Mo‘minov in the late 1920s continued his studies in the capital of Uzbekistan – Samarkand,[1] where he graduated from the socio-economic faculty of the Uzbek Pedagogical Academy with a degree in history, philosophy in 1931.

Academic career

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Mo‘minov was an active participant in the creation of the Samarkand State University. In 1933, a joint literary faculty was appointed dean. From 1933 to 1935 he was dean of the history department of SamGU. Until 1941, he headed the department of philosophy. In 1937, the NKVD, on a false denunciation, arrested his brother Arabboy Mo‘minov. The brother was sentenced to ten years in the Stalinist camps. A few years later, his brother's wife also died. In this difficult situation, Mo‘minov showed courage and took care of the children of his older brother.[2]

Mo‘minov participated in the organization of the Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR and in the same 1943 was elected its corresponding member.

In 1950 he defended his doctoral dissertation at the Institute of Philosophy of the USSR Academy of Sciences. He was advised by such major scholars as: S. Aini, as well as E.E. Bertels (1890–1957), a well-known orientalist, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

In 1944–1955, the head of the Department of Philosophy at SamGU.

He was the director of the Institute of History and Archeology of the Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR (1955–1956). At the initiative of Mo‘minov, new departments were created at the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR: "History of the Great Patriotic War", "History of Irrigation", "Historiography"[3]

In 1956 he was elected an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR, vice-president of the Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR (1956–1974).

Mo‘minov was the organizer and first director of the Institute of Philosophy and Law of the Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR (1958–1959).

Mo‘minov owns more than 200 publications on various issues of philosophy and history. He was a deputy of the Supreme Council of the Uzbek SSR (4 convocations).

Mo‘minov from 1966 to 1974 was chairman of the standing commission on foreign affairs of the Supreme Council of the Uzbek SSR.

Mo‘minov was among the main organizers of the first All-Union Conference of Orientalists in Tashkent, which was held in July 1957. Orientalists from all over the Soviet Union, as well as China, Czechoslovakia, Mongolia, Vietnam, Romania took part in it.[4]

In 1960, Mo‘minov led the Uzbek delegation at the XXV International Congress of Orientalists in Moscow.

I. Mo‘minov in the conditions of liberalization of the post-Stalin era tried to organizationally implement the unrealized plans of his teachers: V. Vyatkin, P. Saliev, M. Saidzhanov to study the history of Samarkand.

On the initiative of I. Mo‘minov in 1964, it was decided to create a museum in Samarkand for his teacher S. Aini. In 1967, the museum was inaugurated.

In the 1960s, I. Mo‘minov, with the support of Sh. Rashidov, developed the idea of a broad study of the history of higher education - the system of madrassas in Samarkand. It was planned to restore the education system at Mirzo Ulugbek Madrasah and celebrate the 550th anniversary of the madrasah in 1970, but the initiative came up against opposition from reactionaries both in Uzbekistan and abroad. Only after Uzbekistan gained independence in 2000, academician B. Valikhodjaev tried to revive this idea in a different format.

Mo‘minov was the initiator and organizer of the conference in 1970 dedicated to the 2500th anniversary of Samarkand.[5] By this date, the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan was formed and transferred from Tashkent to Samarkand. In connection with the festivities of the 2500th anniversary of Samarkand, the Museum of the History of the Foundation of Samarkand was opened, and for the first time in the history of the Uzbek SSR, a monument to Mirzo Ulugbek was erected. A monument was also erected to the classics of oriental poetry A. Jami and A. Navoi. Under the editorship of Mo‘minov, a two-volume history of Samarkand was prepared and published from ancient times until 1969.

The main scientific activity of Mo‘minov was related to the study of the philosophical heritage of the peoples of Central Asia. Mo‘minov analyzed the views of the Enlightenment Democrats of the 19th – early 20th centuries. Ahmad Donish, Furkat, Zavka, Mukimi, Khamza, Aini and other famous educators, writers, poets.[6][7]

Editorial career

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Mo‘minov was the first editor in chief of the first Uzbek Soviet encyclopedia. Specialists under his leadership for the first time compiled municipalities for creating an encyclopedia, which was the first Soviet encyclopedia in Central Asia, and later served as an example for compiling encyclopedias in other Soviet Central Asian republics.

Editor-in-chief of the journal Social Sciences in Uzbekistan (1957–1974), which became the first periodical body in the field of the humanities in Central Asia.[8] Already in those years, scientists and institutions of countries such as the USA, Germany, and Great Britain became subscribers to the journal, France, Japan, etc.[9]

The first editor-in-chief of the magazine "Fan wa turmush" (Science and Life) (1957). Editor of a number of scientific publications: "History of Samarkand" in two volumes, "History of Bukhara", "History of Khwarazm", History of the Uzbek SSR from ancient times to the present day. Tashkent, 1974, "History of the Karakalpak Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic" in two volumes. T., 1974. et al.

In 1967, a four-volume “History of the Uzbek SSR” in the Uzbek language was edited by IM Mo‘minov.[10] The publication of multi-volume stories of Uzbekistan was continued only 40 years later.

Awards and honors

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Literature

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  • Montgomery David, Review of Samarkand taarikhi by I. M. Mo‘minov et al // The American historical review, volume 81, no. 4 (October, 1976).
  • James Critchlow, Review of „Ŭzbek Sovet Entsiklopediiasi, Vols. 1-7: Ä-Nikelin. by I. M. Mŭminov”, // Slavic Review Vol. 37, No. 1 (March, 1978).
  • Edward A.Allworth, The modern Uzbeks. From the fourteenth century to the present. A cultural history. Stanford: Hoover institution press, 1990, p. 245.
  • Olivier Roy, The new Central Asia. The creation of nations. New York university press, 2000, p. 168.

References

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  1. ^ Zhalolov A., Ibrokhim Mo‘minov – alloma, arbob va inson // Social Sciences in Uzbekistan, No. 12, 1998, p. .35
  2. ^ "primer-nauchnogo-muzhestva". Archived from the original on 2018-02-01. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
  3. ^ Ziyoev H., Amir Temurni "oklashda" Ibrohim Muminizing roles // Social Sciences in Uzbekistan, No. 12, 1998, p.41
  4. ^ Kirasirova M., "Sons of Muslims" in Moscow: Soviet Central Asian mediators to the foreign East, 1955–1962 in Ab Imperio, 4,2011, p.118
  5. ^ Joint scientific session dedicated to the 2500th anniversary of Samarkand. TD T .: Fan, 1969
  6. ^ Mo‘minov I.M. From the history of the development of socio-political thought in Uzbekistan, from the late 19th to the early 20th centuries Tashkent, 1957, 214c
  7. ^ Mo‘minov I. From the history of social and philosophical thought from Uzbekistan in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. // Tr. Uzb. state ped Institute of them. Navoi. New ser. 1949. - No. 40. - S. 1–71
  8. ^ Lunin B.V. I.M Mo‘minov and the journal "Social Sciences in Uzbekistan" // Social Sciences in Uzbekistan, No. 12, 1998, p. 50
  9. ^ Lunin B.V. I. Mo‘minov and the journal "Social Sciences in Uzbekistan" // Social Sciences in Uzbekistan, No. 12, 1998, p. 52
  10. ^ Ziyoev Kh., Amir Temurni “oklashda” Ibrohim Muminizing roles // Social Sciences in Uzbekistan, No. 12, 1998, p. 41
  11. ^ a b c "Иброҳим Мўминович Мўминов". Sovet Oʻzbekistoni (in Uzbek). No. 172. 23 July 1974. p. 3.
  12. ^ "Указ Президента Республики Узбекистан О награждении посмертно деятелей науки, литературы и искусства, внесших огромный вклад в развитие науки и культуры Узбекистана". Narodnoe slovo (in Russian). No. 172. 26 August 2003. p. 1.
  13. ^ "Фан ва тахника соҳасида Ўзбекистон ССРнинг Бируний номидаги Давлат мукофотларини бериш тўғрисида". Sovet Oʻzbekistoni (in Uzbek). No. 263. 7 November 1967. p. 2.
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