<![CDATA[This article analyses the place and content of religious instruction in the educational textbooks produced by the Turkestan Jadids in the early twentieth century. Drawing on the primers and religious-subject textbooks authored by Mahmudkhoja Behbudi, Munavvar Qori Abdurashidkhanov, Abdulla Avloni, and Saidrasul Saidazizi, the study demonstrates that the new-method (usul-i jadid) reform did not abolish religious teaching but rather reformed its methodology and content. The findings confirm that in Jadid maktabs, Qurʼanic literacy was taught through the phonetic method (usul-i savtiya), while creed, ritual practice, ethics, and the history of Islam were taught in the mother tongue — systematically and intelligibly. The author assesses the Jadid educational project as a movement of renewal (tajdid) within the Islamic tradition.]]>
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