Jadidism as Part of Russian Islamic Discourse (Contemporary Historiographic Evaluations)
Journal: Islamovedenie
Year: 2018

In the traditional perception of the Russian political elite, Muslims of the Russian Empire were religious traditionalists. The processes of renewal in the Muslim community at the turn of the 19 th -20 th centuries were in many ways a surprise to the top of the society and forced it to think seriously about the prospects for the further movement of Islam towards renovationism. What is the essence of the phenomenon called Jadidism, which broke the stereotype of perception that existed in the mind