Jadidism in Central Asia Within Reformism and Modernism in the Muslim World
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4919949 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ingeborg Baldauf (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 72-88 |
| Publication date | 2001-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Die Welt des Islams (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-2539 • E-ISSN: 1570-0607 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/157006001323146830 |
| OpenAlex | W2026380887 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
Asian Jadidism, like many other -isms, tends to fade away the more we scrutinize it. There is nothing surprising in this; hardly anyone would expect to find a clear-cut, persistent and uniform profile for a social phenomenon which existed, roughly speaking, for three decades, and over an area that included Kabul and Almaty, Bukhara and Kashgar, Samarkand and Tashkent. Furthermore, the individuals who were part of this phenomenon came from very different socio-economic and educational backgrounds, and although they shared basic ideas and goals, we see that they followed very different paths. Perhaps it is still too early to try and define exactly what Central Asian Jadidism was. Scholarly research is still in its infancy, and what little flawed knowledge we possess is too readily obscured and engulfed by ad hoc judgement and fixed ideology. I hope comparison with similar phenomena outside my chosen scope of space and time can avoid these pitfalls and therefore help us to a better understanding of the nature and the specific character of Jadidism in Central Asia. Adeeb Khalid has proposed a preliminary definition of who can be called a Jadidi, namely, those individuals who took part in efforts to reform Muslim s ,ciety through the use of modern means of communication (...) and new forms of sociability.' In even simpler terms, it could be suggested that the common denominator that linked this otherwise loosely connected group of individuals could be their positive relationship of sorts with the cluster of enlightening and modernizing ideas that came together with the
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| Citations per year | 0.91 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2022 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |