Jadidism in Central Asia: Islam and Modernity in the Russian Empire

Khalid, A. (1999)

Article / Letter to editor

Muslim modernism in Central Asia at the turn of the twentieth century remains virtually unknown to scholars of Muslim cultural history. What little we know comes through a thick prism of nationalist or Soviet historiography that loses the Islamic dimension of the movement. Yet, approaching Jadidism, as this movement is usually called, as a Muslim movement allows us to broaden our understanding of the Muslim world’s encounter with modernity, and to reconsider many of the categories we habitually invoke in studying the Muslim world.

• Central Asia

• All authors: Khalid, A.
• Date: 1999
• Journal: ISIM Newsletter
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 16 - 16
• Publisher: ISIM, Leiden