The publicist skills of behbudiy

Abstract

Many of Mahmudhoja Behbudi's journalistic articles have not yet been republished, or rather, collected and studied. Nevertheless, the articles that have already caught the attention of readers show that he is an active politician and a sharp political commentator. For example, the famous Jadid's article “Khairul Umuru Avsatuho” (1906) informs the public about the four parties in Turkestan in the early twentieth century. He urges 6 million Turkestan Muslims to unite around one of these parties andfight for their rights. At the same time, he says, the party of the Union of Muslims of Russia, which was close to him, met in Nizhny Novgorod in 1905, St. Petersburg in early 1906, and again in Nizhny Novgorod in August this year to determine its political program. But the party says it will join cadets who are close to them with their political program and work to achieve their goal. This article by Behbudi gives the impression that it was written in order to educate the political masses of the people. Perhaps one of the tasks of a leading political figure like Behbudi was to make the people politically literate and gradually bring them to the arena of political struggle.