Jadidism – a movement for the modernization of Islam at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Abstract

Recently, the relevance of studying the problem of modernization in Islam is growing. This is primarily due to the problems of globalization and integration in the world, as well as spiritual modernization, which began in Kazakhstani society. Islamic civilization offers in this problem alternative ways of world development. Several modernization processes have taken place in the history of Islam, and similar processes are also observed in today’s Islam. To understand the causes of modernization processes in Islam today, we need to study the historical experience of previous such processes, analyze their cause-effect relationships. The purpose of the article is to reveal the nature, determine the historical background, analyze the results of the modernization process in Islam at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries, that is, Jadidism.