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Destruction of the Islamic intelligentsia
The head of the educational department of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the region, Valiulla Yakupov, was killed, Rishat Khamidullin, the head of the apparatus of the republic's muftiate, told Interfax.
He noted that the circumstances of V. Yakupov’s death are not yet known. “According to preliminary data, the mufti’s car was blown up about an hour ago at the intersection of Musin and Chetaev streets, and the mufti was shot,” said R. Khamidullin.
The press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for Tatarstan confirmed to the agency that a Land Rover Cruiser caught fire while driving at the intersection of Musin and Chetaev.
V. Yakupov was born in 1963 in Kazan. Tatar by nationality.
In 1987 he graduated from the Kazan Chemical-Technological Institute named after. S.M.Kirova. In November 1990, he was elected chairman of the Iman Youth Center for Islamic Culture. Since 1992 - imam-khatib of the Kazan Apanaevskaya mosque.
In 1993-1996 he was the rector of the Kazan madrasah "Muhammadiyya", in 1996-1998 he worked as the deputy imam-mukhtasib of the Kazan Muslim Spiritual Board of the Republic of Tatarstan, in 1998 he was elected first deputy mufti of Tatarstan. Since 2008 - Deputy Mufti of Tatarstan. Since 2009, co-chairman of the Expert Council for State Religious Studies under the Russian Ministry of Justice.
Candidate of Historical Sciences, V. Yakupov was the founder of the first publishing house of Islamic literature in Russia, the author of a number of theological and historical works, an active publicist and popularizer of Islam. He also had a serious influence on the development of the Islamic education system in Tatarstan.
V. Yakupov was also known as one of the most implacable opponents of Wahhabism in Russia, a significant part of his writings is devoted to polemics with which.
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We had friendly relations. He was a smart and kind man. Russia has become poorer...