Riza Fakhreddin on Abystai as Mentors and Mothers
https://doi.org/10.22311/2074-1529-2024-20-3-153-164
Abstract
The article is devoted to the role of abystais as mentors (teachers) and mothers. Based on the materials of Riza Fakhreddin’s book “Mashhur Khatynnar” (“The Famous Women”), we analyze the concept of abystais created by him as mentors (subjects taught, educational literature, correspondence of books, preaching and holding majlises) and mothers (hereditary nature of activity, upbringing of daughters as abystais and sons as imams). Riza-qadi identified the names of the abystais, gave an idea of their teachers as well abystais’ teaching and preaching activities, which was innovative for the Muslim world of Russia. Before him, we only know the names of women as wives and daughters of imams and mudarrises without indicating their education and activities. If in the book edition “Mashhur Khatynnar” (1904) we see their brief biographies revealing the above-mentioned points, then in the manuscript of 1934 there are also quite detailed biographies containing information about various aspects of the social activities of these women and indicating their place in the education system of Tatars in the 19th century and the first years of the 20th century.
About the Author
A. Yu. Khabutdinov
Kazan Branch of the Russian State University of Justice; Moscow Islamic Institute
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Aidar Yu. Khabutdinov, Dr. Sci. (Hist.), professor; Head of the Center for the Study of the History of Islam in Russia
7a, Novo- Azinskaya Str., Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan, 420053
12, Kirova Lane, 109382, Moscow
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Khabutdinov A.Yu. Riza Fakhreddin on Abystai as Mentors and Mothers. Islam in the modern world. 2024;20(3):153-164. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.22311/2074-1529-2024-20-3-153-164
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