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Uzbekistan's Jadid Movement: The Muslim Reformers Who Defied Empire
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a generation of Central Asian intellectuals launched a quiet revolution — not with guns, but with books, newspapers, and a new kind of school. They called themselves the Jadids, from the Arabic 'jadid' meaning 'new.' This episode follows the story of the Jadid movement in Uzbekistan, centered in cities like Samarkand, Tashkent, and Bukhara. We meet Mahmud Khoja Behbudi, the playwright and publisher who founded one of the first Turkic-language newspapers and wrote the play 'The Parricide,' a scandalous critique of…
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