The Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform

Party)[74] sent a four-member delegation to Tashkent in June to establish a
local organization of the party with the aim of form-
[68] UT, 13 May 1917, 3. 
[69] The malaise was mutual; Abdullah Battal Taymas, one of the Kazan
representatives, looked back on his visit as a waste of time: Rus Ihtilålmden
Hâtiralar (Istanbul, 1947), 39.
[70] "Qazan hay'atining isti'fasi," UT , 7 June 1917, 4.
[71] "Qazan hay'ati," UT , 27 August 1917, 4.
[72] Browder and Kerensky, eds., Russtan Provisional Government , I: 409.
[73] The proceedings of the Moscow congress are in Butun Rusya Musulmanlarining
1917nchi yilda 1-11 Mayda Maskavda bolghan umumt isyizdining protaqollari
(Petrograd, 1917). See also Serge A. Zenkovsky, Pan-Turkism and Islam in Russia
(Cambridge, 1960), 141-153.
[74] On the Türk Adam-i Markaziyat Firqasi, see Tadeusz Swietochowski, Russian
Azerbaijan , 1905-1920: The Shaping of National Identity in a Muslim Community
(Cambridge, 1985), 86, 90. Adam-i markaziyat is literally "decentralization,"
but the party's own publications translated it as Tiurkskaia federativnaia