The Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform

party and state apparatus. In May, he visited Samarqand, where he addressed a
mass meeting in the Sher Dar madrasa organized by the Samarqand Labor Union.
Later in the month, the union renamed itself the Muslim Soviet of Workers' and
Peasants' Deputies of Samarqand uezd, and by August, a Muslim Workers' Communist
Society (Musulman Zehmatkash Ishtirakiyun Jamiyati) boasted 1,600 members in
Samarqand. The Jadid newspaper Hurriyat had been adopted by the education
section of the Samarqand Soviet as its organ.[18] In Tashkent, the Tatar Union
reorganized as the Tatar Socialist Workers' Committee in June. Then, on z
August, in a meeting held in the main mosque of Tashkent and chaired by
Klevleev, it transformed itself into the Tatar section of the Russian Communist