THE JADID ENLIGHTENERS' MOVEMENT TOWARD RENEWAL IN THE SYSTEM OF CULTURE AND EDUCATION
(The emergence of the enlighteners' movement and its ideas for renewing the sphere of education and upbringing)
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Jadidism, enlighteners, usul-i jadid, Turkestan, Bukhara, Khiva, Young Bukharans, Young Khivans, Fitrat, Fayzulla Xoʻjaev, Islomxoʻja, national awakening, reform, autonomy. Abstract. This article examines the movement of the Jadid enlighteners ofAbstract
This article examines the movement of the Jadid enlighteners of Turkestan toward renewing the system of culture and education in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It analyses the reformersʼ views on the socio-economic development of the region, the critical assessments of the existing maktab-madrasa education (including those of Russian officials), and Copyright: © 2026 by the authors. the opening of new-method (usul-i jadid) schools. It traces how the enlightenment Submitted for open access publication movement grew into a political struggle, surveying the distinctive development of under the terms and conditions of the Jadidism in Turkestan, the Bukharan Emirate and the Khivan Khanate, the reform Creative Commons Attribution (CC programmes of Islamxoʻja, Fitrat and Fayzulla Xoʻjaev, the manifestos of the BY) license Young Bukharans and Young Khivans, and the congresses of 1917. It concludes (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ that, although the Jadids were ultimately defeated, they played a decisive role by/4.0/) in the national-liberation and statehood aspirations of the peoples of Turkestan.References
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