Category
page 1Jadids
Ismail Gaspıralı
Crimean Tatar intellectual and politician (1851-1914)
Sadriddin Ayni
Tajik writer (1878-1954)

Jadid
The Jadid movement or Jadidism was a Turco-Islamic modernist political, religious, and cultural movement in the Russian Empire in the late 19th and early 20th century. They normally referred to themselves by the Tatar terms Taraqqiparvarlar ("progressives"), Ziyalilar ("intellectuals"), or simply Yäşlär/Yoshlar ("youth"). The Jadid movement advocated for an Islamic social and cultural reformation through the revival of pristine Islamic beliefs and teachings, while simultaneously engaging with modernity. Jadids maintained that Muslim peoples in Tsarist Russia had entered a period of moral and s

Hamza Hakimzade Niyazi
Uzbek screenwriter and poet (1889-1929)
Fayzulla Khodzhayev
Uzbek politician (1896-1938)
Abdurrauf Fitrat
writer and politician (1885-1938)
Şihabetdin Märcani
Russian Tatar historian and theologian (1818–1889)
Rizaetdin Fäxretdin
Tatar scholar and publicist
Musa Bigiev
Tatar Islamic scholar, theologian philosopher, translator (1874–1949)
Mahmud Khoja Behbudiy
Uzbek writer
Muhammad Amin Bughra
Chinese politician

Burhan Shahidi
Chinese Tatar politician (1894–1989)
Sabit Damolla
First Prime Minister of the Turkish Islamic Republic of Eastern Turkistan, Uyghur statesman, politician,philosopher, scholar, and religious leader (1883–1934)
Ğäbdennasıyr Qursawi
Tatar theologian, religious reformer, Islamic scholar and educator
Zaynulla Rasulev
Bashkir religious leader (1833–1917)
Xösäyen Yamaşef
Tatar Bolshevik (1882-1912)
Torokul Dzhanuzakov
Kyrgyz Soviet politician (1893–1921)
Munavvar Qori Abdurashidxon oʻgʻli
Uzbekistani politician, author and writer (1878-1931)
Husain Faizkhanov
Tatar historian and philologist (1823–1866)
Islam Khodja
Grand Vizier of the Khiva Khanate (1872–1913)
Mullanur Waxitof
Russian revolutionary (1885–1918)
Abduqodir Shakuriy
turkestani educator, journalist and activist (1875–1943)
Mukhiddin Mansurov
Tajik merchant, banker and politician
Muso Saidjonov
uzbek politician
Ali al-Ghumuqi
Dagestani Islamic theologian and polymath (1878–1943)