Sadwaqas Ghylmani

Sadwaqas Ghylmani was a long-serving qadi of Kazakhstan, imam-khatib and member of the Muslim Council for Central Asia and Kazakhstan.

Early life

Sadwaqas Ghylmani was born in 1890 in Maltabar village in Bashkir-origin family. His grandfather Salmen Muhamediyarovich Gazin and great-grandfather Muhamediyar Mukhtarovich Gazin were mullahs.

Career

From 1929 to 1946 he was persecuted by Soviet authorities. In 1946 he became a mullah in a mosque in Akmolinsk. In 1952, qadi of Kazakhstani Qadiyat Abd al-Ghaffar Shamsutdinov appointed him as his successor. Sadwaqas Ghylmani held this position until his death on April 24, 1972. He is buried at the Kensai cemetery in Almaty.