Abstract: A significant place in heritage of the former Bashkir Sufi poet Muhammad-Ali Chuquri belongs to panegyric poems dedicated to the representatives of Muslim intellectual elite of the region – mufti, leaders of the mystical brotherhoods, mosque clerics, teachers in the religious educational establishments. These text are published only partially and assessed by literary scholars as not carrying any literary value, and thus not deserving special research. The author believes that the aforementioned writings represent a valuable source of authentic information about the Muslim religious figures of Bashkiria, as well as the records allowing to reconstruct the internal relationships and value orientations of Ulema. The texts of poetic panegyrics are viewed from the perspective of reflection of the socially and ethically approved qualities of educators (mudarrisat) of the Muslim educational establishments, literary and linguistic approaches of creation of their positive image. The article correlates the facts describec in the literary text with the archival data on the actual social situation of the prototypes of literary characters. The conclusion is made that along with the set by Islam character traits, high qualification in the taught sciences and engagement into the local religious tradition, one of the key qualities defining the positive assessment by contemporaries of the educators in Muslim educational establishments of Bashkiria was their noble origin, kinship with the representatives of military of religious elite, which may be associated with changes in the social structure of that took place in Bashkir society in the XIX century.