Ismail Gasprinsky — English Wikipedia

English Wikipedia article on Ismail Gasprinsky; used for entity facts only. It dates him 20 March [O.S. 8 March] 1851 – 24 September [O.S. 11 September] 1914, and covers the newspaper Terciman, founded in 1883, his new method (usul-ü cedit) of teaching reading, his campaign for a common Turkic literary language, his 1881 book Russian Muslims, the women's journal Alem-i Nisvan and children's journal Alem-i Subyan, his part in founding the Union of Muslims (Ittifaq al-Muslimin) in 1906, and his role as the inspiration of Jadidism. Its text names no school of Islam for him.