In 1962 he entered the Faculty of History and Philology of the Chechen-Ingush State Pedagogical Institute, from which he graduated in 1967 and began teaching at a school in the village of Plievo.

From 1968 to 1991, Maksharip worked at the Chechen-Ingush Scientific and Research Institute of History, Language and Literature [ru].

In 1972 Maksharip defended his candidate thesis on the topic "Medieval material culture of mountainous Ingushetia (13th – 17th centuries)"; in 1987 Maksharip defended his doctoral thesis on the topic "Medieval Cult Monuments of the Central Caucasus", becoming the first Ingush to achieve the title of doctor of historical sciences.

[2] As a result of the deportation of the Chechens and Ingush in 1944, he spent his childhood and youth in the village of Chulaktau, Kazakh ASSR.

[4] In 1972, Maksharip defended ahead of time his candidate thesis on the topic "medieval material culture of mountainous Ingushetia (13th – 17th centuries)".

[4] He was the one who for the first time write about the relationship of the Ingush material and spiritual culture with Georgian, Chechen and Ossetian.

He argued that the Orstkhoy were a separate Vainakh people and that, despite the assimilation processes of the 20th century, they retained their special identity.