Fatix Ämirxan

Ämirxanov Möxämmätfatix Zarif ulı ([] aka Fatix Ämirxan [] ; Tatar Arabic: فاتح امئرخان; Tatar Cyrillic: Әмирхан(ов) Фатих (Мөхәммәтфатих) Зариф улы; Амирха́н(ов) Фати́х (Мухамметфати́х) Зари́фович; 1886-1926) was a Tatar classic writer, editor and publicist.

Ämirxan was born in 1886 in Kazan, Russian Empire. His father was mullah Möxämmätzarif Ämirxanov, an author of Qur'anical tafsir and the founder of the Ämirxaniä madrassa.

Ämirxan graduated Möxämmädiä madrassa in Kazan, that period the most prominent Tatar educational institution. In 1906-1907 he lived in Moscowand Saint Petersburg, where he published Tatar journal for children.

Working in Kazan, Ämirxan was an editor of Äl-İslax (The Renewal), he was published in newspapers Qoyaş (The Sun), Yoldız (The star), İdel (Volga), journals Yalt-yolt (The Lightning) and Añ (The Consciousness ).

Fatix Ämirxan is an author of the stories Fätxulla hazrat (Fätxulla xäzrät) (1909), Xäyät (1911), plays The Youth (Yäşlär) (1913), The Unequal (Tigezsezlär) (1915), novel Half Way Along (Urtalıqta) (1912). in this writings he had reflected the problems of Tatar society in the begging of 20th century, tried to find future's human behavior. In 1926 Uncle Şäfiğulla he criticized the dogmatism and fanaticism of the Bolshevism. This satiric novel was published only in 1991. Ämirxan was a follower of realism and upheld national character in literature. Fatix Ämirxan investigated the heritage of Tatar enlighteners, such as Qayum Nasíri, wrote articles on the works of Ğäliäskär Kamal, Ğafur Qoläxmätov. Ämirxan was one of the advocate of Tuqay's works and his close friend. For many years Ämirxan was paralyzed and eventually died of pulmonary tuberculosis in 1926.

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