The role of ishak khan ibrat school in namangan literary and educational life

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Indeed, if we look at the life of Ibrat, we 
can see that he was truly a mature and 
enlightened man of his time. Ibrat was born in 
1862 (1279 AH) in Turakurgan. His parents, 
Junaidullah and Khuribibi, were educated men 
of their time. We must particularly emphasise 
the role of his mother Khuribibi in Ibrat's 
literacy and education from a young age. 
Ishakhan originally attended a hijab school in 
the neighbourhood, but was educated by his 
mother. Khuribibi was a schoolgirl, and in her 
school she taught girls not only dry 
memorisation, but also writing and calligraphy. 
After finishing school, Ishaq Khan came to 
Kokand, where he studied at the Madrasah of 
Muhammad Siddiq Tungotar (1878–1886). In 
Kokand, Ibrat was in close contact with 
prominent figures of Uzbek literature and 
culture of that time such as Mukimi, Zavkiy, 
Furkhat, Nodim and Khazini. 
After graduating from the madrasah 
Ibrat in 1886, he returned to Turakurgan and 
began his educational activities in the village, 
and in the same year opened a school in the 
village. It should also be noted that the first 
school of the new method in the Fergana region 
was opened in Namangan by Ishak Khan 
Junaydullohoja oglu (Ibrat). [2] His school was 
very different from the "usuli qadim" (old 
method), the "usuli tahajji ", that is, schools 
based on the hijra method. While studying in 
Kokand, Ibrat sensed that the methods of 
teaching in Russian schools in the country were 
superior to the hijab and dry memorization 

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methods prevalent in local schools. That's why 
he uses the sound method (savtiya), which is 
considered more advanced than his school. But 
the school did not last long. Fanatics managed 
to shut it down. In 1907 he opened a second 
school, which also taught European languages 
[3]. Ibrat taught 30 village children in this 
school. He taught according to his own 
curriculum. The school was housed in a large 
room with bright windows and was equipped 
with new teaching aids. Ibrat invited Hussein 
Makayev, a teacher familiar with new teaching 
methods, to his school. Hussain Makayev and 
his wife Fatima Makayeva worked as teachers 
at Ishak Khan Ibrat School. 
Ishak Khan Ibrat, along with the Jadids, 
is well aware that the cradle of progress is the 
school. Isahan Ibrat, who is based in Athens, 
Sofia, Rome and Istanbul, as well as in the 
countries of the East, has made great efforts to 
ensure the development of Western spirituality 
and science He stresses in his article that moral 
education is the duty of the clergymen: "In our 
opinion, the clergymen are committed to 
reforming it by preaching from the pulpit of the 
holy temple and proclaiming the rules of 
Shariah to the people. In the ruling, in mosques 
and mosques, the mornings and evenings 
commandments are known and people are not 
ignorant, and even if they are advised in a 
language that people understand, it is always 
different from the daily prayers. fajr and daily 
prayers fajr. In particular, a sermon recited in a 
holy mosque will touch the heart of every 
believer" [4] 
A special feature of the Ibrat school is 
that Ishaq Khan distributed textbooks to the 
pupils of his school. In 1910 Ibrat opened a 
large library called “Kutubxonai Ishoqiya”. A 
newspaper known in the Turkic world, Fatih 
Karimi's “Vaqt”, published in Orenburg, wrote: 
"Namangan. Judge Ishak of Mutabarindin 
demanded the publication of a newspaper 
called Altijor an-Namangan. In 1908 he opened 
a printing house in Namangan. In that year he 
opened a library called "Kutubkhonayi 
Ishaqiya" and borrowed books in Turkish, 
Tatar, Uzbek and other languages. The time has 
come to publish a newspaper. Sincerely wish 
you success" [5]. 
The list of books in the library archive 
confirms that the library had many books on 
education and teaching written in Uzbek, 
Turkish, Tatar, Russian and Persian-Tajik. In 
the section of the library devoted to 
schoolchildren were "Khojai Sibyon" Ismail 
Gaspirali, Saidrasul Saidazizov's "Ustodi avval", 
Munavvarkori's "Adibi avval", "Adibi soni", 
Mahmudhodja Behbudi's "Asbobi ta’limi savod" 
and "Kitobat-ul aftol", educational booklets that 
were used not only by him, but also by 
villagers.
Ishak Khan Ibrat took 10-15 copies of almost 
all textbooks published in Tashkent to the 
school library and gave them to schoolchildren. 
Notably, almost all of these textbooks were 
actually printed on paperback and replaced by 
hardboard at Matbai Ishakiya's cover shop. 
This created the possibility of long-term 
storage of the textbooks. 
For many years the library was headed 
by Mullah Iskandar domla Abdulwahob oglu 
(1880–1969), a disciple of Ishakhan Tora [6]. 
The library also had notebooks of participants 
for receiving and passing on books, and Ishaq 
Khan himself supervised the reading of books 
by the youth. "Matbaai Ishaqia" played a 
significant role in the annual growth of the 
library's book collection. The periodicals of the 
library included: "Turkestan viloyatining 
gazeti", 
"Turkestanskie 
vedomosti", 
"Tarjimon", "Vaqt", "Oyina" by Mahmukhodja 
Behbudi, magazines by Rizo Fakhriddin 
"Shuro" [7]. Unfortunately, many rare editions 
of this library were destroyed during the 
massacres of 1918–1920, during the mass 
repression of 1937, and the rest were sent to 

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