RT Article
T1 Moving Beyond Modernism: Rethinking Cultural Change in Muslim Eurasia (19th-20th Centuries)
JF Journal of the economic and social history of the Orient
VO 59
IS 1/2
SP 1
OP 36
A1 Eden, Jeff
A1 Sartori, Paolo
A1 DeWeese, Devin
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2016
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1817460110
AB The introduction outlines the key issues underlying the contributions to the volume, problematizing the terminology and conceptual framework typically adopted in studies of Jadidism. Following a consideration of divergent definitions of Jadidism in existing scholarship, and some examples illustrating the recurrent motifs encountered in scholarly representations of the Jadids, the authors focus on four revisionist theses that frame the directions they believe future scholarship on Jadidism should take. The first claims that Jadidism was not a coherent ‘movement,’ but reflected a set of intellectual and cultural practices closely connected with the discourse of Islamic ‘reform;’ the second recognizes that the association of particular individuals with Jadidism was itself contingent and sporadic, again calling into question the coherence of Jadidism in the social sphere. The third insists that previous scholarship has misconstrued the motivations and achievements of the Jadid ‘reformers.’ The fourth questions the interpretative value of the prevailing terminology of Jadid studies, including ‘Islamic modernism,’ the alternative of ‘traditionalism,’ and even ‘Jadidism’ itself.
K1 Tradition
K1 Cultural Change
K1 Modernism
K1 Reformism
K1 Jadidism
DO 10.1163/15685209-12341392