Shihab al-Din Marjani, Tatar scholar of Kazan

ScholarTatar scholar of Kazan

Shihab al-Din Marjaniشهاب الدين المرجاني

1818-1889 CEApproximate dateKazan

A Tatar scholar who wrote the history of the Volga Muslims and renewed learning in Kazan.

After about eleven years of study in Bukhara and Samarkand, he became imam of a Kazan mosque and taught. He wrote histories of the Volga Bulgars and Tatars and pressed the madrasas to widen their studies.

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