Paul Goble
Vienna, March 6 – A Crimean Tatar journal for women launched this week represents the latest development in a trend that has attracted relatively little attention: the revival especially among the Tatars and other Muslim groups in Russia of the principles of reformist Islam promoted more than a century ago by Ismail Bey Gaspirali, the Jadidist editor of "Tercuman.”
On Thursday, March 4, staff of a new Crimean Tatar women’s journal, "Arzy” ("Longing”) formally presented the first issue to the Supreme Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, a date chosen because on March 3,1906, Gaspirali launched under the editorship of his daughter Shefika the first such journal, "Alem-i Nisvan” ("Woman’s World”).
That journal, those involved with the new one said, promoted women’s equality and freedom, and the new magazine, which initially will ...
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