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Abdurauf Fitrat

Died in 1938

Abdurauf Fitrat was born around 1886 in Bukhara, into a merchant family, and studied in the city's madrasas, including that of Mir-i Arab. Having left around 1909 for Istanbul, he became there the main theorist of the Jadid reformists of Bukhara. Minister of Education, Finance and Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of Bukhara in the early twenties, he then taught in Samarkand. Arrested in 1937, he was executed in 1938 and rehabilitated in 1957.

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