Eshon Babakhan ibn Abdulmazhidkhan
Eshon Babakhan ibn Abdulmazhidkhan
Islamic religious figure, preacher, theologian and jurist, Sheikh-ul-Islam. One of the founders and the first chairman of the Spiritual Board of Muslims of Central Asia and Kazakhstan (SADUM). First Mufti of the Five Republics
Eshon Bobokhan was born in Tashkent in 1858 in the family of Abdulmajidkhan ibn Yunuskhan, head of Moyi Mubarak madrasa. He received religious education from his father at the Mir Arab madrasa in Bukhara and at the Kokaldosh madrasa in Tashkent. Imam-khatib of the Tilla Sheikh mosque in Tashkent, he was a teacher at the Moyi Mubarak madrasa. They were the elders and great representatives of the Naqshbandiya sect. In 1928, his house, property, rare books and manuscripts were confiscated in the Soviet state, where revolutionary laws and anti-religious policies were established, and he was imprisoned in 1937 and 1941 for teaching religious lessons. In 1943, they were the initiators of the establishment of the Central Asian and Kazakh Muslim Religious Control (OQMDN). In 1943-1957, they worked as the first chairman of the O’OKMD and muftis of five republics. In 1945, they received permission from the Soviet government to reopen the Mir Arab madrasa in Bukhara. In 1924, Soviet Muslims were forbidden to go on pilgrimage. In 1945, the permission of the Soviet government was obtained for Muslims to go on pilgrimage. Those who managed to open mosques in the districts and cities of Central Asia and Kazakhstan, with the initiative of Hazrat, in 1955 permission was given to publish the Holy Qur’an for the first time.
Sheikh, mufti Eshon Bobokhan ibn Abdul-Majidkhan was a member of the World Peace Council, a member of the board of the Soviet Peace Committee, a member of the board of the Peace Committee of Uzbekistan. Those who have been awarded the Order of “Mekhnat Kyzil Bayrak” for their wide-ranging activities.
