[3] Möxlisä Gabdelgallyamovna Nigmatullina was born in 1869 in the village of İj-Bubiy, Sarapulsky Uyezd, Vyatka Governorate of the Russian Empire (now Agryzsky District of Tatarstan).
She came from a family of hereditary scholars; her father founded a madrasa in their native village, which was later transformed into a modern school by his sons and Möxlisä's brothers, Gubaydulla and Gabdulla.
In 1901, Möxlisä, along with her brothers and their wives, Nasima and Khusnifatima, established a 6-year women's teacher training school in İj-Bubiy, where instruction was conducted in the Tatar language.
In 1914, with the funds provided by the merchants Yaushev, Möxlisä Bubıy established a women's teacher training seminary in Troitsk called "Darul-Mugallimat."
At this congress, decisions were made to ban polygamy, make the wearing of the hijab optional, and allow divorce initiated by the wife (known as "khula") without requiring evidence of the husband's failure.