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Record Nr.

UNINA9910774611903321

Autore

Abdirashidov Zaynabidin

Titolo

'Abdurra'uf Fitrat in Istanbul : Quest for Freedom / / Zaynabidin Abdirashidov

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2023]

©2023

ISBN

3-11-077485-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XII, 60 p.)

Collana

ANOR Central Asian Studies ; ; 22

Disciplina

891/.572

Soggetti

Islam and politics - Asia, Central

Jadidism - Asia, Central

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Preface -- The Beginning: New Ideas, Reform, and Other Trends -- Outlines of Fitrat's Early Biography -- Being Bukharayi but Turkestani -- Trip to Turkey: Escaping from Persecution? -- Different Political Options: Sırat-ı Müstaqim and Hikmet -- Fitrat and the Medrese al-Wa'izin -- Muslim Unity: The Inception of a New 'Salafism'? -- Ignorance vs Salvation: Ways to Exit Crisis -- Conclusion: Fitrat and Istanbul -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores how to locate the sources which influenced the political, social, and ideological stance of a famous Turkestani Jadid thinker, writer, journalist and scholar, 'Abdurra'uf Fitrat (1886-1938), thus also putting in perspective some overall intellectual trends in Turkestan, especially in Bukhara in the early 1910s. Based on Fitrat's early publications the book discusses what intellectual milieu it was that shaped his worldview in the early 1910s, a worldview that could be designated as a first attempt at "freedom and sovereignty through Islam". A thorough review of these publications also brings greater clarity to the issue of Fitrat's ethnical identity, which sheds light on how he related to the worldwide community of Muslims and how he positioned himself towards political unity of the Muslim World.



Furthermore, by scrutinizing Fitrat's intellectual legacy of 1910-1915, this book highlights some of the origins of Jadidism in Turkestan and places Turkestani Jadidism in the context of worldwide Muslim reformism at the turn of the 20th century.