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The Uzbek Jadids: Reform, Resistance, and Soviet Erasure
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the Uzbek Jadids, the reformist intellectuals of early 20th-century Central Asia who sought to modernize Muslim society through education, printing, and political activism. They trace the movement's roots in the Crimean Tatar Ismail Gasprinski's usul-i jadid method, its spread to Tashkent and Samarkand, and the rise of figures like Mahmudkhoja Behbudiy, Munavvar Qori, and Abdurauf Fitrat. They discuss the Jadids' schools, their newspapers like Tarjuman and Sadoi Turkiston, their fraught relationship with the Russian imperial…
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