The Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform

party is extremely dangerous for us Muslims."[14] The radical transformation of
society advocated by this
[11] Mirza Sirajiddin Haji Mirz. 'Abdurra'uf, Safarnama-yi tubaf-i Bukhara , ed.
M. Asadiyan (Tehran, 1992, [orig. 1911]), 117, 120.
[12] Awlani, Turki Gulistan , 53.
[13] Ibid. 
[14] Al-Haji Mahmud Khoja walad-i Qari Behbud Khoja, "Khayr ul-umur awsatiha,"
K'bursbid . 11 October 1906. This suspicion marked Jadid thinkers throughout the
Russian empire; Musa Jarullah Bigi, the prominent Tatar Jadid, expressed very
similar sentiments when taking stock of the Muslim political movement in 1915:
Islahat esaslarï (Petrograd, 1915), 200.
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