Käşşaf Tärcemani (, , , ) or Käşşafetdin Tärcemanof (, , , ; 1877–1943) was a Muslim religious figure.

Biography

Käşşaf Tärcemani was born in 1877 in a

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family. He received his primary education from his father, then he studied at Qazan Märcaniä madrasah. In 1904 he became an imam in Qazan's White Mosque, which was located in city's area; at the same time he was a teacher in his alma mater and a mudarris in the White Mosque's madrasah. In 1906 he participated in the third All-Russian Muslim Congress; in 1917–1918 he was a member of Millät Mäclese and Milli İdärä. In 1917 he relocated to Ufa, where he began to serve as a

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in the . At the same time he was a teacher in Ufa's madrasah (1920–1930) and a chief editor of ' (''Islamic Journal'') journal (1924–1928). In 1926 Tärcemani attended the first

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as a deputy head of the Soviet delegation, the chairman being

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. After Fäxretdin's death in 1936 he was acting

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. In 1936 Tärcemani was arrested as a part of a falsified "Central Spiritual Administration of Muslims case" and sentenced to 10 years in prison, where he died. He was rehabilitated in 1956.

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* Muslims from the Russian Empire 1877 births 1943 deaths Great Purge victims from Russia Soviet rehabilitations People who died in the Gulag {{Islam-bio-stub