Munawwar Qari Abdurrashidkhan ogli

Munawwar Qari Abdurrashidkhan ogli (Cyrillic Мунаввар Қори Абдурашидхон ўғли; Arabic name منور قارى ابن عبد الرشيد خان‎; 1878 in Tashkent – 1931) was a leading Jadidist of late Tsarist-era Turkestan.

Munawwar Qari was the youngest child in a family of islamic scholars and received his education in Tashkent and Bukhara.

[1] After the Russian Revolution, he continued working as a teacher, but was arrested and deported to a Gulag camp in 1925[2] and shot in 1931 after being convicted for "counter-revolutionary activities".

[5] In 1908, his collection "Sabzazor," "Yer Yuzi" (about geography), and "Tajvidal Qurʼon" (teaching the Quran) books were published and used as textbooks in new-style schools.

He was a founder, editor, head, and member of various societies, organizations, partnerships, and associations, such as "Jamiyati Imdodiya" (1909), "Turon" (1913), "Turkiston Kutubxonasi" (1914), "Umid" (1914), and "Koʻmak" (1921).

[5] He was the head of the BXSR Public Enlightenment and Waqf Department (1920-1921), the head of the Tashkent city's social education department (1921), a teacher at the Navoiy School and the Narimonov Pedagogical Technical Institute (1923-1925), a scientific worker at the museum in Samarkand, and a responsible secretary of the Tashkent-Fergana branch of the Uzbekistan Antiquities Preservation Committee (1927-1928).

[4] The textbook "Oʻzbekcha til saboqligi" (compiled in four parts by Shorasul Zunnun and Qayum Ramazon, 1925-1926) has been published several times.

He advocated for the adoption of European trade and industry, the advancement of science, and the cultivation of spiritual enlightenment.