 He was one of the most prominent figures of the Khwarezmian Jadid movement and the Young Khivans.Born in 1887 in Khiva, the capital of the Khanate of Khiva, Rakhmonov graduated from the Khiva Madrasa, where he received a Sunni Islamic and partially secular education.In 1912, at the age of 26, he went to the Ottoman Empire through Iran, entering Istanbul University in 1913.