Abstract

Considering the content of the main materials, the panel participants will deliver their presentations in Russian.

Contemporary historiography is entering a new level of research, where theoretical concepts created by Soviet ideology are being revised. In particular, the idea of the backwardness of the Uzbek khanates and the political and socio-cultural events that took place in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries in Turkestan are subjected to careful analysis. In this regard, the hermeneutics of scientific literature and primary sources becomes relevant. Hermeneutics as the methodology of interpretation can provide to understand the meaning, relatively, close to the real situation. It emphasizes understanding the context (historical, cultural, literary) of a text to arrive at its true meaning. The presenters of the panel analizing the text of the literature, periodicals, archive documents and chronicals of the royal court, will focus on what the authors intended and how the readers may interpret. The political system established by the rulers of each historical era had a significant influence on the literary environment, its themes and ideological direction. In particular, the example of the literary environment created by Amir Umar Khan (1810–1822) in the Kokand Khanate illustrates the influence of state administration and the political situation on cultural processes.The panel discusses issues related to distortions and one-sided approaches to the literary heritage of the outstanding Kokand poetess Jahon Otin Uvaisi (1779–1845). Through the activities of one of the enlighteners of the early 20th century, Abdullah Avlani, there are illustrated the peculiarities of personagraphical approach. Also, the panel explores how the history of Turkestan in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was reflected in periodicals, examining the ideological and discursive features of historical event presentation. It focuses particularly on publications in the official newspapers “Turkestanskiye Vedomosti” and “Turkiston Viloyatining Gazeti”, as well as the Jadidist press “Samarkand”, Taraqqiy”, “Oyina” and “Zarafshon”.

Papers:

1.Nodira A. Mustafaeva. The Personagraphical approach to the study of the Jadid movement in Turkestan during the early 20th century.

2.Nigora K. Rakhimjonova. The history of Turkestan in late 19th and early 20th-century periodicals: problems of source studies.

3.Salimakhon Eshonova. The Literary Legacy of the Kokand Poetess Jahonotin Uvaysi (1779–1845): the ideological prism of the research.