STUDY OF THE PROBLEM OF TURKESTAN'S INDEPENDENCE IN TURKISH HISTORY (XX–BEGINS OF THE 21ST CENTURIES)

The article analyzes the study of the problem of Turkestan Jadidism in Turkish historiography based on the IMRAD model. The source basis of the study is dissertations prepared at Turkish universities and the scientific conclusions presented in them. The aim is to reveal how Jadidism was explained in the Turkish scientific environment, which directions were prioritized, and how the role of Turkestan Jadids in education, religion, literature, politics, and socio-economic life was interpreted. The results show that, while Turkestan Jadidism in Turkish historiography was initially interpreted within the framework of the "usuli jadid" schools and the influence of Ismail Gaspirali, in subsequent studies it was evaluated as a complex movement related to Behbudi, Munavvar Qori, Abdurauf Fitrat, Young Bukhara people, the press, national revival, religious reform, and socio-economic development. Each main idea in the article is given with footnotes indicating the page.

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AHMAD DONISH – FOUNDER OF ENLIGHTENMENT IN CENTRAL ASIA

The great son of the Tajik people, Ahmad Donish, was an encyclopedist, teacher, reformer, scientist, writer, philosopher, thinker, poet, statesman of the Bukhara Emirate. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, under the influence of Ahmad Donish's work, the awakening of the advanced part of the intelligentsia took place not only in the Bukhara Emirate, but also in Central Asia. Their main idea was to demand from the ruling class and the bureaucratic apparatus to limit arbitrariness in relation to the ordinary working people, to take measures to develop the economy, science and culture, to reform the education system, to ensure the arbitrariness of state power and administration bodies. Elementary and democratic rights for the helpless citizens of Bukhara, etc. Therefore, the personality of Ahmad Donish and his work occupy a bright place in the pages of our history.

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