Musa Bigiev

Musa Jarullah Bigiev (Tatar: Муса Ярулла Бигиев; 25 December 1873 – 28 October 1949) was a Tatar Muslim scholar, theologian, philosopher, and publicist. He was one of the leaders of the Jadid movement, an Islamic modernist movement in the Russian Empire. As a controversial reformist thinker, Bigi received the nickname "Luther of Islam" from the scholar, Ottoman Shaykh al-Islam Mustafa Sabri.

After receiving his education in Kazan, Bukhara, Istanbul, and Cairo, he became a political activist for the Ittifaq, the political organisation of the Muslims of Russia. He also taught in Orenburg, wrote journalistic texts and translated classic works into Tatar. After emigrating from the Soviet Union, he travelled Europe and the Near and Far East while writing and publishing.