An Analysis of Contribution of Jadid Movement in Modernisation and Reform of Education in Central Asia

Throughout the research it has been demonstrated that the Jadidism as a religious-cultural and political movement has managed to succeed in reestablishing the state order of Central Asia by contesting with the conservative system and the traditional ulema in battling the ignorance through new-method schools, meanwhile retaining the Islamic religion. This study has found out that the cultural transformation and the modernization of the indigenous community through the transformation of the societal order attained via the reformation of the conventional patterns of education was aspired by the Jadids. In this sense, the Jadids have pursued the new Muslim intellectual cohort who would be more inclined towards the secular sciences than with religious studies. In this revivalist sense, the Jadids called for a reform that was entrenched in a rigorist discourse on correcting Muslim practice. The first chapter of this work will be dedicated to reviewing the Qadimist (conservative Islam) movement by answering questions such as what was the Qadimist, traditional Islam movement, and why did they oppose the reform ideas proposed by Jadids? Subsequently, the second chapter will examine the formation of ‘new-method’ schools and their proliferation across Central Asia and corroborate with archival documents. The final chapter will explore the methodological content of the new-method schools by dealing with the question of what kind of subjects their curriculum and programs contained.