Ismail Gasprinski, Crimean Tatar educator, publisher, and politician (died 1914)

Ismail Gasprinsky

Crimean Tatar intellectual, educator, publisher, and politician

Ismail bey Gasprinsky was a Crimean Tatar intellectual, educator, publisher and Pan-Turkist politician who inspired the Jadidist movement in Central Asia. He was one of the first Muslim intellectuals in the Russian Empire, who realized the need for education and cultural reform…