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At Kasurian, we're not just publishing history and ideas. We're doing "anthropology" and trying to provide an inside perspective on contemporary events and issues facing Muslims today. This fantastic essay accomplishes just that, with Kasurian's Managing Editor Mariam

In Kasurian’s latest essay, Managing Editor Mariam Mahmoud (Mariam) finds herself an outsider at the Alif Summit, looking at an emerging subculture in which Muslims are building a new vocabulary of change in tech. Read more in ‘The Fourth Option: Alif and Silicon

To build means different things in different industries. What everyone agrees on is that a builder is curious and obsessive about a problem they want to solve. Read more in Kasurian’s latest essay, ‘The Fourth Option: Alif and Silicon Valley’s Muslim Counterculture’—link in bio.

Meaningful change requires multi-generational work of building institutions, systems, and cultural infrastructure that can sustain transformation over time. Read more in Kasurian's latest essay, ‘The Fourth Option: Alif and Silicon Valley's Muslim Counterculture’—link in bio.

Glad to have published another essay with Kasurian , this time focusing on the Jadid reform movement in the Russian Empire!

Another fantastic essay in Kasurian, looking at the Jadid movement’s efforts at cultural and educational reform among Muslims in imperial Russia. A much needed lesson on how cultural vitality can occur even in the most forbidding political environments. While little known

Nice essay by Yana. Interesting anecdote: in 1912, Gasprinsky visited Bombay to connect with the Muslim modernists of British India (like the Anjuman e Islam educational society) He tried to introduce his innovative pedagogy to increase literacy amongst Indian Muslims.

In Imperial Russia, the Jadid movement plugged Muslim intellectuals, scholars, and playwrights from Crimea to Khiva into a burgeoning transnational Islamicate network. Even Islamic civilisation’s political sovereignty had largely been chipped away, this intellectual vanguard rose

truly delightful and rich essay by jāna ᠶᠠᠨᠠ

A lesser-known but significant chapter in modern Islamic thought is the Jadid movement of the late 19th & early 20th centuries. They sought to modernize Muslim education and even religious thought before being crushed by the Bolsheviks. Here is a reminder of their contributions:

After WWI, the Muslim world entered a period of deep intellectual stagnation, defined by the Algerian sociologist Malik Bennabi as ‘civilisational bankruptcy’. Rather than an abstract process or a purely spiritual malaise, this stagnation occurred after the dismemberment of the

An excellent by jāna ᠶᠠᠨᠠ as it vividly showcases the scope and ambition of the Jadid movement, especially through the visionary contributions of Ismail Gasprinsky & the dissemination of educational and cultural reforms throughout the Turco-Islamic world. kasurian.com/p/jadid-reform

Here are some recommended readings to help contextualise the sociopolitical landscape of the period, and the broader dynamics among Muslim leaders, thinkers, and communities in the Russian Empire.

Kasurian If I may also add.

Like many visionaries of his time, Volga Tatar intellectual Gabdulla Bubi harboured designs that extended beyond the short-term horizon, encompassing places like Kulja (modern Xinjiang), which he planned to turn into a civilisational centre for scientific and intellectual

Reactions to Jadid societal and educational reforms were divided. Muslim conservative factions, known as Qadimists, or proponents of the Old Method, responded to the Jadids with escalating opposition. Read more in Kasurian's latest essay, ‘The Jadid’s Quest for Reform’—link in