Known and Unknown Fiṭrat: Early Convictions and Activities
Known and Unknown Fiṭrat: Early Convictions and Activities

Summary/Abstract: The worldwide Muslim reformist movement, which also gained strength in Turkestan at the beginning of the 20th century, helped determine aspects of the social and political affairs that were to have far-reaching effects on the western Central Asian region. This influence has been particularly strong in the sphere of publishing, education, and public affairs. One of the most prominent modernist figures and the region’s leading intellectuals of that time, ‘Abd al-Ra’ūf Fiṭrat (1886–1938) for over two decades fought against, first, what he perceived as the restrictive conservative Islamic thought and practice of local Muslim elites and later, the rigid dogmatism of the newly installed Soviet regime.

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