Abdukadir Shakuri

Abdukadir Shakuri is a Samarkand educator and teacher , the author of a number of textbooks for new-method schools, a journalist , one of the famous representatives of Samarkand Jadidism .

Abdukadir Shakuri
Uzbek Abduqodir Shakuriy / Abduqodir Shakuriy Persian. عبدقادر شکوری
Date of Birth	1875 year
Place of Birth	Rajabamin village , Samarkand , Zeravshan district , Turkestan governor-general , Russian Empire
Date of death	1943 (68 years old)
Place of death	Samarkand , Uzbek SSR , USSR
Citizenship	Russian Empire → the USSR
Occupation	enlightener, teacher, author of textbooks, journalist, jadidist

He was born in 1875 in the village of Rajabamin, on the outskirts of Samarkand , in the family of a gardener and a religious person. There is evidence that his father was an imam . His mother was an Athenian , and taught at a home Islamic school for girls. He received his primary education at a local old-school methodical school, then he moved to Samarkand and entered Arifjanbay madrassah . Later he got acquainted with the activities and teaching methods of the Russian-native gymnasium. Already at a young age he began teaching and dreamed of opening his own new method school. He was fond of literature, poetry and history. He was fluent in Tajik , Uzbek , Persian and Arabic . Later, he also mastered the Russian and Turkish languages. I read newspapers of the Jadidists of Russia, in particular, the materials of Ismail Gasprinsky . In his youth, he became acquainted with the ideas of Jadidism , as well as with prominent Jadidists of Samarakand and the rest of Central Asia. He was personally acquainted with Mahmudhoja Behbudi , Abdurauf Fitrat , Saidahmad Vasli , Saidreza Alizade , Khoji Muin , Sadriddin Aini , Syddyki Aji , Abdulkayum Kurbi , Turakul Zekhni , Hamza Niyazi and others. Jadidists regularly met at home and spent time together discussing plans and news, exchanging opinions, reading and discussing works and poems. He wrote articles for a number of Jadidist newspapers and magazines.

At the end of the 1890s, at the invitation of the Jadidists, he left for Kokand and got acquainted with the local new method schools, which were opened by the Jadidists. He returned to Samarkand, and in 1901 opened a new method school in his native village of Rajabamin, where mainly secular sciences and subjects were taught. In addition to teaching at his school, Abdukadir Shakuri also wrote textbooks, which he printed at his own expense. One of his famous textbooks is “Rakhnamoi Savod” (Literacy Instructions) in Persian. He also wrote textbooks such as Jami'-ul-Hikayat (1907) and Zubdat-ul-Ash'ar (1907). Some of the textbooks were written in collaboration with Saidahmad Vasli and Mahmudhoja Behbudi. In 1909, Shakuri traveled to Kazan , where he met with Tatar Jadidists. In 1912 he traveled to Istanbul , where he got acquainted with the teaching methods of new-method schools. Acquired many acquaintances and friends.

Shakuri later opened a new method school for girls. The head of this school was Shakuri himself, and the teacher was his wife, Razia, who was also a native . Subsequently, the couple decided to merge the two schools and abolished separate education, thereby causing surprise at the time of the local clergy and the conservative part of the population.

In 1921, Abdukadir Shakuri was appointed head of school No. 13 of the city of Samarkand. At the same time, he was a teacher of language and literature at this school. In 1925, with the support of Shakuri and at the expense of the population of one of the villages on the outskirts of Samarkand, an elementary school was opened. He was awarded the title of Honored Education Worker. Abdukadir Shakuri died in 1943, at the age of 68. In honor of Abdukadir Shakuri, a secondary school and one of the streets are named in Samarkand.