Mirza Hasan Alkadari (Lezgian: Хьасан Абдуллагьан хва Алкьвадарви) was a North Caucasian Islamic jurist (faqih), historian, poet, educator in pre-revolutionary Dagestan.
Abdullah Alkadari was considered a great connoisseur of various sciences: grammar, logic, the Quran, Hadith studies, interpretation of dreams, mathematics, the basics of versification, etc.
[3] Alkadari studied the basics of Islamic jurisprudence under him, as well as become fluent in Arabic, Turkic and Persian languages.
As an Islamic jurist, his approach to hadiths were somewhat liberal, he was not against adopting European customs of clothing,[6] gramophone[7] and was a reader of Molla Nasraddin, an Azerbaijani magazine criticizing mullahs at the time.
In Spassk, he entered into close ties with local Tatar Muslims, as he possessed knowledge of Islam and Sharia.
There he taught basic knowledge of reading, writing, arithmetic, geography, astronomy, history of Dagestan.