Ghabdennasir Qursawi

Template:Short description Ğäbdennasír İbrahim ulı Qursawí (Template:Langx,<ref>{{#invoke:IPA|main}}</ref> Template:Langx), sometimes spelled Kursavi or Koursavi (1776–1812) was a Tatar educator, Hanafi Maturidi theologian,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> and prominent Jadidist. He was a brother of Ğäbdelxaliq Qursawí.<ref>{{#invoke:IPA|main}}</ref> He studied at Machkara (Malmyzhsky District) village madrassah and later at the Mir-i-Arab Madrasah in Bukhara. From 1794 to 1808 he was imam of the mosque in Yughary Qursa village of Kazan Governorate, Russian Empire and the headmaster of his own madrassah. His surname is, actually, a derivative of "Qursa" in Arabic manner, which means "from Qursa". He is credited with the revival of modernism- and reform-oriented Islam (or Jadidism) among the Tatars, and was the author of numerous articles about religion. He died during the hajj and is buried in Istanbul.<ref>Template:TES</ref>

Other names include:

• Abunnasyr Gabdennasyr ('Abu an-Nasir) ibn Ibrahim Kursavi (Russian: Абуннасыр Габденнасыр (‘Абу ан-Насир) ибн Иб­ра­хим Курсави)
• Abunnasyr Gabdennasyr ibn Ibrahim ibn Yarmuhammed ibn Ishtiryak al-Bulgari al-Kazani al-Kursavi (Russian: Абуннасыр Габденнасыр ибн Ибрахим ибн Ярмухаммед ибн Иштиряк аль-Бул­га­ри аль-Казани аль-Курсави)
• Äbennasıyr Ğäbdennasıyr bine İbrahim Qursawi (Tatar: Әбен­насыйр Габ­ден­на­сыйр бине Ибраһим Курсави)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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