Mahmudxoja Behbudiy

Mahmudxoja Behbudiy was born in January 1875 near Samarkand, into a family of religious scholars. Trained at the madrasa, he became a qadi and then a mufti, and made the pilgrimage to Mecca. As leader of the Jadids, the reformers who wanted to modernise the Islam of Central Asia through school and the press, he opened a library in Samarkand, drew up and published a map of Turkestan, founded a newspaper and then a journal, and left numerous articles and textbooks. Arrested in 1919, he was executed at Karshi on the orders of the emir of Bukhara.

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• TheatrePadarkushMahmudxoja Behbudiy · 1911not translated into EnglishLiterature