The Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform: Jadidism in Central Asia is a 1998 book by Adeeb Khalid, published by the University of California Press.

Khalid's work focuses on the development of the Jadidism reform movement from the 1860s to the 1920s in tsarist Central Asia, primarily centered in the province of Turkestan and its capital in Tashkent.

[2][3] The author moves past normal dualistic approaches to the topic, such as modem vs. premodem and Russian vs. Muslim, and sees a more nuanced picture where all these forces interact to create a unique Central Asian engagement with modernity.

[2][3][5] "The book's discussion of the way incorporation into the Russian Empire changed life for the indigenous inhabitants of the governorship-general of Turkestan is one of the best treatments of that subject in print."

[7] "If there is a criticism to be made of this otherwise excellent book, it is that there is too little attempt to locate Central Asian reformist thinking in the history of other modernizing trends in Islam of a similar period."