Mahmudkhodja Behbudiy

He was born on 20 January 1875 in the village of Bakhshitepa on the outskirts of Samarkand, into a family of Islamic scholars; the Russian article's infobox gives 30 January against its own lead and every other edition ^{1 2 3}. He studied at a madrasa in Samarkand, worked as a scribe and secretary to the qadi courts, and himself became a qadi and, in the Russian and Uzbek accounts, mufti of Samarkand ^{1 2 4}.

In 1903–1904 he opened one of the first new-method schools at Samarkand, published textbooks such as Mukhtasar-i jugrofiya-yi Rusi, and in 1911 staged his play Padarkush (The Murderer of the Father), the first modern drama in Central Asia ¹. In 1913 he launched the newspaper Samarkand and the magazine Ayina, which carried the debates of the Jadid movement until the wartime closures ^{1 4}.

He travelled widely: a first journey in 1899 took him to Istanbul, Cairo, Mecca and Medina on the hajj, and he returned via the Caucasus and Iran; a second journey in 1914 to Istanbul and Edirne fed reports in Ayina, and in Syunik in Armenia he founded a school ^{1 2}.

After the February Revolution he sat on the Samarkand city council and in April 1917 led the election of the city's Muslim executive committee; in the civil-war years he was seized on a journey south, held and tortured at Qarshi, and executed there on 25 March 1919 on the orders of the last Emir of Bukhara ^{1 2}.

The only school statement for Behbudiy in any of the six editions read stands in the Russian article's infobox — Islam (Hanafi madhhab) — one infobox family referenced to no text; the texts attest his scholarly family, his madrasa education and his offices of qadi and mufti, which do not attest a school, and Wikidata's religion value is Islam in general ^{2 1 3}. His faith segment is therefore recorded as unknown, flagged, with the Hanafi infobox reading preserved in the record's note.

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