Sadri Maksudi Arsal
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 Sadri Maksudi Arsal in 1930s | |
| Born | Sadreddīn Nizāmeddin al-Maqsūdī 1878 Taşsu, Kazan Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | 20 February 1957 (aged 76) |
| Alma mater | Sorbonne University |
| Known for | President of Idel-Ural State |
| Spouse | Kamile Arsal |
Sadri Maksudi Arsal (1878 – 20 February 1957) was one of the leading figures in the national awakening of Tatars in Russia during early 1900s. He worked as a writer, lawyer, politician, professor, lecturer, researcher of Turkic languages and a delegate of League of Nations. He was the president of the short-lived Idel-Ural State.[1][2]
Name
His birthname was Sadreddīn Nizāmeddin al-Maqsūdī, and while operating as a congressman in State Duma, he used the Russified version Sadrutdin Nisamutdinovich Maksudov (Садретдин Низаметдинович Максудов). Later in Turkey, he added "Arsal" to his name and from 1935 forwards went by the name he is now known for.[1]
Biography
Sadri Maksudi Arsal was born in 1878 in the village of Taşsu near
In 1918, after the rise of bolshevism and the breaking up of the Islamic party he was a part of, Sadri Maksudi Arsal escaped through Saint Petersburg to Finland, where he stayed in Tampere, at the home of local Finnish Tatar named Imad Samaletdin. From there, the next year he continued his trip to Paris, where at the Peace Conference he spoke for the political rights of people living in Idel Ural area, though he was not able to produce a positive result with his speech.[2][4]
In 1922, Sadri Maksudi Arsal returned briefly to Finland, because his family had fled there from Soviet Union. Together they traveled to Germany, settling in Berlin. While living there, Arsal focused mainly on historical studies and refrained from any kind of political activities. After a while, he moved to Paris where he gave lectures in Turkish history at the Slavic Faculty of Sorbonne. In 1925, Arsal moved to Turkey, where among other things he worked as a lecturer and later as professor of legal history and philosophy in universities of Ankara and Istanbul, and was eventually awarded with an honorary title.[2]
Sadri Maksudi Arsal published multiple literary works in the fields of his studies, for example Türk dili için, which deals with the development of Turkish language and in where he proposes different ways of which it could be made better; like removing foreign influences from it. Arsal was elected as member of the Turkish Parliament for three legislative periods. He died in 1957 in Istanbul.[2][4]
References
- ^ ISBN 978-951-9380-78-0.
- ^ ISBN 952-91-6753-9.
- ^ Margagliotta & Robiglio 2012, p. 615.
- ^ ISBN 978-951-9380-78-0.
Bibliography
- Margagliotta, Giusy Maria Ausilia; Robiglio, Andrea Aldo (2012). Art, Intellect and Politics: A Diachronic Perspective: Studies on the Interaction of Art, Thought and Power (in German). BRILL. ISBN 9789004242203.
External links
Media related to Sadri Maksudi Arsal at Wikimedia Commons- Almaz Miftahov (2003). From Russia to Turkey: An Intellectual Biography of Sadri Maksudi Arsal (1878-1957) (MA thesis). ProQuest 2652595593.
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