The politics of Muslim cultural reform [electronic resource] : jadidism in Central Asia / 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 b...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ACLS)
Main Author: Khalid, Adeeb, 1964-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1998.
Series:Comparative studies on Muslim societies ; 27.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Knowledge and Society in the Nineteenth Century
  • 2. The Making of a Colonial Society
  • 3. The Origins of Jadidism
  • 4. The Politics of Admonition
  • 5. Knowledge as Salvation
  • 6. Imagining the Nation
  • 7. Navigating the Nation
  • 8. 1917: The Moment of Truth.