Jadids
The Jadid movement or Jadidism was an Islamic modernism, 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 language, Tatar terms ''Taraqqiparvarlar'' ("progressives"), ''Ziyalilar'' ("intellectuals"), or simply ''Yäşlär/Yoshlar'' ("youth"). The Jadid movement advocated for an Islamic social and cultural Islah, reformation through the Islamic revival, revival of pristine Islamic beliefs and teachings, while simultaneously Modernism, engaging with modernity. Jadids maintained that Muslim peoples in Tsarist Russia had entered a period of Decadence, moral and societal decay that could only be rectified by the acquisition of a new kind of knowledge and modernist, European-modeled cultural reform. Modern technology, Modern technologies of Modern communication, communication and transportation such as telegraph, printing press, postal system, and railways ...
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