Fitrat is a famous educator, the founder of modern Uzbek literature of the 20th century, a politician, and one of the leaders of the Jadid movement.

He significantly contributed to developing the Uzbek and Turkic languages through his literary and linguistic activities. He tried to create new forms of Uzbek literature, thereby contributing to understanding national identity.

In 1921, Fitrat founded the Oriental Music School and became its first director.  He invited musicians and singers to the school and musicologists such as Viktor Alexandrovich Uspensky.

From that time on, he supervised the collection of the shashmaqom melody. At the initiative of Fitrat, Ata Jalol, and Ata Giyas Bukhara shoshmaqom was recorded and released by B. Uspensky.

Educator Abdurauf Fitrat was also one of the initiators of sending Bukhara students to Germany.

The Center for Islamic Civilization in Uzbekistan has decided to organize a media project “Fitrat – connoisseur of Oriental music”, devoted to the activities of Fitrat, for the exhibition “Uzbekistan in the twentieth century”.

Nazokat Usmanova, UzA