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Autorentext
Adeeb Khalid is Assistant Professor of History at Carleton College.

Klappentext
"Other scholars have dealt with the Jadid movement, but none approaches this study in the quality of its scholarship and contextual social history."Dale Eickelman, author of The Middle East and Central Asia

"Original and stimulating . . . with both the empathy of a contemporaneous insider and the critical objectivity of an informed outsider."John Perry, University of Chicago

Zusammenfassung
This work examines cultural debates in Central Asia during Russian rule, exploring Russia's role as a colonial power and the politics of Islamic reform movements. It describes how the Jadids sought to safeguard the indigenous Islamic culture by adapting it to the modern state.

Inhalt
List of Tables 
Preface 
Technical Note 
Abbreviations 
Introduction 

I. 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 

   Epilogue 
   Select Bibliography 
   Index