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The Khans Who Built a Modern Nation
While the Registan’s blue tiles and the Aral Sea’s crisis dominate our earlier episodes, this conversation turns to the quiet architects of modern Uzbek identity: Abdurauf Fitrat and Mahmudkhoja Behbudiy. We explore how these early twentieth-century intellectuals, known as the Usul-i Jadid reformers, navigated the collapse of the Khanate of Bukhara and the rise of Soviet power. From their educational innovations in madrasas to their tragic fate under Stalin’s purges, we trace how they tried to fuse Islamic tradition with modern science and national consciousness. Join us as we examine the…
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