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DOI: https://doi.org/10.22394/2073-7203-2017-35-3-112-133
Alfrid Bustanov, Daria Dorodnykh
Jadidism as a Paradigm for Studying Islam in the Russian
Empire
Alfrid Bustanov — European University at Saint Petersburg (Saint
Petersburg, Russia), University of Amsterdam (Amsterdam, the
Netherlands). abustanov@eu.spb.ru
Daria Dorodnykh — European University at Saint Petersburg (Saint
Petersburg, Russia). ddorodnyh@eu.spb.ru
This article is devoted to problematizing the research focus of academic
literature on Islamic reformers in the Russian empire. Studies of the
late imperial period typically devote the most of their attention to
modernization. Jadidists‑reformers are considered as key protagonists
and engines of history. A typical narrative about Jadidists includes
several elements: political activity, reforms in education, the flourishing
of journalism, the renewal of religion and the “female question.” In
this article we consider Jadidism as a narrative about backwardness
and progress, which is uncritically reproduced in academic literature.
Relying on recollections of Gabdulla Bubi, we offer a reconsideration of
the framework that is generally used to describe the intellectual history of
Muslims in Russia. We classify Bubi’s narrative as a language‑ideology
and place it within the framework of our own “imperial project”. We do
so to offer an alternative to Jadidim as an explanatory model.
Keywords: Islam in Russia, Islamic modernism, Jadidism, imperial
project.
Бустанов А., Дородных Д. Джадидизм как парадигма в изучении ислама в Российской империи // Государство, рели-
гия, церковь в России и за рубежом. 2017. № 3. С. 112–133.
Bustanov, Alfrid, Dorodnykh, Daria (2017) “Jadidism as a Paradigm for Studying Islam in the Russian Empire”,
Gosudarstvo,
religiia, tserkov’ v Rossii i za rubezhom 35(3): 112–133.
Работа выполнена при поддержке гранта РФФИ 17-81-01042 а(ц) «
Политизация
языка религии и сакрализация языка политики во время Гражданской войны»
.
This article is written in the framework of the NWO research program “The
Russian
Language of Islam” (project no. 360-70-490). Авторы признательны И.В. Стародуб-
ровской, А.С. Агаджаняну, В.О. Бобровникову и анонимным рецензентам за по-
лезные замечания и комментарии к этой статье.