Mehmet Akif's Journal of Sırat-ı Müstakim and Jadidism in Bukhara

In the Muslim world, new ideas, reforms, innovations and other new trends spread through the press. The Muslim press appeared in Bukhara at least in the mid-80s of the 19th century. Persian newspapers and magazines such as Hablulmatin and Chehrenema published in India and Egypt mostly entered Bukhara. In addition, at the same time the Turkic-speaking Muslim press of the Ottoman Empire and Russia also spread. Among these publications, Ġsmail Gaspıralı's Tercüman, Fatiḥ Kerimî‘s Vakit, Mehmet Akif‘s Ṣıratı Müstaqim are prominent. The Turkish press that emerged after the Second Constitutional Revolution began to pay more attention to the socio-political and economic situation of the Muslims of Turkistan. These periodicals, depending on their political aspects, in most cases reviewed printed analytically and informational material from different, mostly Russian newspapers and as well as printed received letters from Turkestan subscribers. This article mainly analyzes and tries to explain the influence of Sıratı Müstaqim magazine on the political, social and ideological beliefs of Bukhara intellectuals and the possibility of intellectual change in Turkestan, especially in Bukhara in the early 1910s.