Sadwaqas Ghylmani

Sadwaqas (Saken, Sadvakas) Ghylmani (Gilmanov, Gelmanov) (, Säduaqas Ğylmani; 1890 – April 24, 1972) was a long-serving qadi of Kazakhstan (Kazakh SSR), imam-khatib and member of the Muslim Council for Central Asia and Kazakhstan.

Early life Sadwaqas Ghylmani was born in 1890 in Maltabar village (aul) (Akmolinsk Oblast of Russian Empire) in Bashkir-origin family. His grandfather Salmen Muhamediyarovich Gazin (1856–1939) and great-grandfather Muhamediyar Mukhtarovich Gazin (1807–1870) were mullahs.

Career From 1929 to 1946 he was persecuted by Soviet authorities. In 1946 he became a mullah (imam) in a mosque in Akmolinsk (modern Astana, capital of Kazakhstan). In 1952, qadi of Kazakhstani Qadiyat Abd al-Ghaffar Shamsutdinov appointed him as his successor. Sadwaqas Ghylmani held this position until his death on April 24, 1972. He is buried at the Kensai cemetery in Almaty.