ÃÂälimcan ðbrahimov (, ; 1887âÂÂ1938) was a Tatar public figure, writer and linguist. The Institute of Language, Literature and Art of the Tatarstan Academy of Sciences is named after him.
ÃÂälimcan ðbrahimov was born in 1887 in the village of Sultanmuratovo in the family of ÃÂirfan ðbrahimov, who was an imam in this village, and his wife, Bibixäsänä. He received his primary education from his father, then he studied in the madrasah of Keà Âänle, and in the Russian-language zemstvo school in Soltanmorat. In 1898âÂÂ1905 and 1906âÂÂ1908 he studied at Wäliä (Orendurg) and ÃÂäliä (Ufa) madrasahs respectively. After ðbrahimof was expelled from ÃÂäliä, he collaborated with various Tatar-language newspapers, such as ÃÂlislax, Yoldñz, Waqñt, and Añ, and worked as a teacher in modern-day Qazaqstan, Ural, and vicinities of ÃÂsterxan. In 1912âÂÂ1913, ðbrahimov attended Kiev University as a free listener but was arrested by the police for participating in the underground Muslim revolutionary circle and remained under surveillance until the February Revolution. Upon release from prison, he worked as an executive secretary of Añ journal (Qazan); then, in 1915, ðbrahimov began to work as a teacher in the ÃÂäliä madrasah.
After the February Revolution, ðbrahimov, together with Fatix Säyfi-Qazanlñ and à Âärif Sünçäläy began to publish a newspaper called ðrek (Freedom); the same year he was elected to Millät Mäclese, where he was a member of the (supporters of territorial autonomy) faction and participated in the activities of its legislative and financial commissions. He was also elected a deputy of the Russian Constituent Assembly from Ufa Governorate. In 1918 together with Mullanur Waxitof and à Âärif Manatof participated in the creation of the Commissariat for Muslim Affairs of Inner Russia under the RSFSR's People's Commissariat for Nationalities. In 1919âÂÂ1920 ðbrahimov was a member of the Central Muslim Military Collegium, head of the Press Department Editorial Board of the Central Bureau of Communist Organizations of the Peoples of the East under the Central Committee of the RCP(b), and an employee of the Qñzñl à Âäreq (Red East) magazine.
From 1920, he worked at the People's Commissariat of Education of Tatar ASSR, and was the chief editor of Bezneñ yul (Our way) and MäÃÂärif (Education) journals. In 1925âÂÂ1927, ðbrahimof was a head of Academic Center of the People's Commissariat of the Republic Education of Tatar ASSR.
He retired in 1927 due to illness in 1927 and lived in Yalta (Crimea) until 1937, when he was arrested as a part of falsified case of "right-wing Trotskyite anti-soviet nationalist organization." ðbrahimof was transferred to Qazan's Pelätän prison and died shortly after in its hospital of pulmonary tuberculosis and tuberculous pleurisy. He was posthumously rehabilitated in 1955
The at the is named after him. There is a museum dedicated to ðbrahimov in his home village.
ðbrahimof's first literary work, , was published in ÃÂlislax newspaper in 1907. Other works indclude (Young hearts, 1912), (Our days, 1919), (Kazakh girl, 1924), (Deep roots, 1928) novels, (Tatar woman's fate, 1910), (Red flowers, 1921), (People, 1923, dedicated to events related to the famine in the Volga area) stories, (New people, 1920) play, etc. His collected works were published in 1974âÂÂ1987 and in 2000 in Qazan.
ðbrahimof wrote works on Tatar philology and linguistics, such as (Tatar grammar, 1911), (How to teach the Tatar language?, 1916), (The matter of spelling, 1924). Also, Ibrahimof wrote articles about à Âihabetdin Märcani, Qäyüm Nasñyri, and historical and publicistic works on revolutionary movement among Tatars.