The Literary Museum named after G.Tukay holds evening titled "Expelled from Paradise", dedicated to the 140th anniversary of the birth of the theologian, public and political figure Musa Bigiyev

January 30, at 14.00,   the G.Tukai Literary Museum holds an evening called "Expelled from Paradise", dedicated to the 140th anniversary of the birth of the theologian, public and political figure Musa Bigiyev.

The museum named after G.Tukai attracts its visitors by a variety of activities. In addition to tours, visitors are offered a literary and musical evenings, children's museum holiday, opening exhibitions of famous artists. Events dedicated to the contemporaries of the great Tatar poet, occupy a special place in the activities of the literary museum.

The next evening   is dedicated to the famous theologian, public figure Musa Bigiyev (1875 - 1949) - one of the most striking and unusual figures  of   Tatar theological thought. He was a prominent Muslim theologian and intellectual, who distinguished himself in many areas of public life. Education    he received in the madrassa "Kasyymiya"  on  the city of Kazan, St. Petersburg University and theological centers of the East.

He worked extensively in periodicals "Ulfat", "Al-Tilmiz", "Al-Ghasr Al-Jadida," "Vakyt", "Shura" and others.  He is known as the participant of the national liberation movement of the Turkic peoples, one of the organizers of the All-Russian Congresses Muslims in the 1906-07, a member of the Central Committee   of the party "Ittifaq al-Muslimin." In the 1917-30 years he was an imam at mosques St. Petersburg and Moscow. Since 1930, he lived in exile and died in Cairo in 1949.

The relationship between Musa and Bigiyev and  Gabdulla Tukai   were contradictory, but the two outstanding figures of Tatar culture have made a huge contribution to its development - one in the field of Islamic theology and law, the other as a poet and founder of the Tatar language.

  At home,   the name  Bigiyev  again  became widely known only from the beginning of perestroika and glasnost. Meanwhile, he is the author of 120 theological works, the translation of the Quran in the Tatar language, the leader of a social movement among Muslims. In the permanent exhibition, the G.Tukai  Museum of Literature  presented photos of  M. Bigiyev, his relatives and his book "The rules of law."

Well-known scientists, literature critics, artists were invited for the evening. Books and documents belonging to Musa Bigiyev from the National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan also to be presented.

Literary Museum G.Tukai: 293-17-66

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