Märcaniä (, , ) was a

madrasa Madrasa (, also , ; Arabic: مدرسة , ), sometimes Romanization of Arabic, romanized as madrasah or madrassa, is the Arabic word for any Educational institution, type of educational institution, secular or religious (of any religion), whet ...

Kazan Kazan; , IPA: Help:IPA/Tatar, ɑzanis the largest city and capital city, capital of Tatarstan, Russia. The city lies at the confluence of the Volga and the Kazanka (river), Kazanka Rivers, covering an area of , with a population of over 1. ...

attached to the Märcani Mosque.

Brief history

It was created around 1770 and had many (often coexisting) names, including ''The First Cathedral Mosque's madrasa'' and ''Yunısof's madrasa''. Later, it acquired the name ''Märcaniä'', in honour of

Şihabetdin Märcani Şihabetdin Märcani (, Tatar alphabet#Cyrillic version, Cyrillic: , ; 1818–1889) was a Volga Tatars, Tatar Hanafi Maturidi theologian and historian. He studied in madrassas of Tashkichu (near Kazan), Bukhara and Samarkand. Beginning in 1850 h ...

, who was madrasa's mudarris between 1850 and 1889, during whose leadership the madrasa became a major center of Muslim education in the area; apart from religious subjects, mathematics, astronomy and history and other non-religious subjects were taught. In 1918, the madrasah was officially closed, but Märcani Mosque's imam Safiulla Abdullin continued to secretly teach shakirds until 1923.

Famous students

Märcaniä was an

alma mater Alma mater (; : almae matres) is an allegorical Latin phrase meaning "nourishing mother". It personifies a school that a person has attended or graduated from. The term is related to ''alumnus'', literally meaning 'nursling', which describes a sc ...

for Xösäyen Yamaşef,

Salix Säydäş Säydäşev Salix Camaletdin ulı (pronounced Salix Säydäş, also spelled Salikh Saydash(ev) ( Tatar Cyrillic: Сәйдәш(ев) Салих Җамалетдин улы; , Saydashev Salikh Zamaletdinovich; 1900 – December 16, 1954) was ...

, Xösäyen Fäyezxanof, Ğäbdelğälläm Fäyezxanof, Ğabdraxman Ğömäri, Sitdıyq Aydarof,

Käşşaf Tärcemani Käşşaf Tärcemani (, , , ) or Käşşafetdin Tärcemanof (, , , ; 1877–1943) was a Muslim religious figure. Biography Käşşaf Tärcemani was born in 1877 in a mullah family. He received his primary education from his father, then he stud ...

, Ğabdulla Apanayef, Morat Rämzi and others.

References

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