Shayx Ziyovuddinxon ibn Eshon Boboxon

From childhood, Ziyovuddinxon grew up watching the lessons his father gave to his students. Later, he took lessons in recitation from the imam-khatib of the “Tilla Shaykh” Mosque, Hakim Qori, and by the age of twelve, he had memorized the entire Quran. In 1920, he entered the Kukaldosh Madrasa, where he studied the science of hadith from his teacher Jamolkhon Domla—specifically, “Mishkat al-Masabih” by Khatib al-Tabrizi—and the “Jalalayn” tafsir from Hasan Hazrat, and took lessons on Imam

Bukhari’s “Jame’us Sahih” from the famous scholar of Syrian origin, Muhammad ibn Said ibn Abdulvohid al-Asaliy ash-Shamiy at-Tarablusiy. In 1945, he went on the Hajj pilgrimage with his father, Eshon Bobokhon. In 1947–1948, he took lessons from scholars of Al-Azhar University in Cairo, such as Abdullah Fuqqoiy and Hafiz Tijoniy, and then deepened his knowledge further in the cities of Mecca and Medina.

In 1948, at the second congress, he was elected as the deputy chairman of the religious oversight. At the third congress in 1957, he was elected as the chairman of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Central Asia and Kazakhstan, and he was given the title “Mufti of the Five Republics.”

Through the Hazrat's initiative, an International Relations Department was established under the religious administration in 1961, and a magazine called “Muslims of the Soviet East” began to be published in four languages. In 1971, a Higher Madrasa (Islamic Institute) named after Imam Bukhari was opened in Tashkent. He oversaw the printing of the Holy Quran in the territory of the Soviet Union in 1957, 1960, and 1968.

Shaykh Ziyovuddinxon ibn Eshon Bobokhon held high respect and esteem in the Islamic world. He was a member of organizations such as the World, Soviet, and Uzbek Peace Councils, the World Supreme Islamic Council, the World Supreme Council for Mosques, the Supreme Islamic Congress, and the Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity Organization.

For his great services in promoting the Islamic religion, Mufti Ziyovuddinxon ibn Eshon Bobokhon was awarded the first-class “Star of Jordan” order, the “Star of Jordan” badge, the first-class “Order of the Cedar of Lebanon,” Morocco’s high-level “Order of the Great Thinker,” the “Order of the Star of Lebanon,” and the Soviet government's “Order of Friendship of Peoples.”

After his death in 1982, Shaykh Ziyovuddinxon ibn Eshon Bobokhon was buried behind the Kaffal Shoshiy mausoleum, next to his father, with the permission of the Uzbekistan government.