The Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform: Jadidism in Central Asia Volume 27

by Adeeb Khalid

Adeeb Khalid offers the first extended examination of cultural debates in Central Asia during Russian rule. With the Russian conquest in the 1860s and 1870s the region came into contact with modernity. The Jadids, influential Muslim intellectuals, sought to safeguard the indigenous Islamic culture by adapting it to the modern state. Through education, literacy, use of the press and by maintaining close ties with Islamic intellectuals from the Ottoman...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520213564
• ISBN13: 9780520213562
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"