[2] He was the son of Ubeydullah Efendi, who was a scholar of the period and Rizaetdin Fäxretdin (close friend of Musa Bigiev) a scientist, was his brother-in-law.
After attending courses on ethnography and the Hungarian language at university for the winter semester, he went to Hungary to continue his education where he completed pedagogy.
He was accepted to the Advanced Teachers Training School at Eötvöş Kollegium (Eötvös Loránd University [citation needed]) with the support of Prof. Ne'meth Gyula.
Then he attended the same university's Faculty of Philosophy and received the title of Doctor of Language and Turcology.
He went to Germany in 1924 to attend the courses of Prof. Bang Koup at Berlin University and did research at the State Library and museums.