Length: 3-4 pages, double-spaced, 12 pt Times New Roman or similar font Make sure to include: Your name, creative title, an identifiable thesis statement that contains a debatable argument, page numbers, Chicago-style citations in footnotes (see Essay #1 instructions for my handout; also under Course Files) Sources: You should cite AT LEAST THREE of the course readings or other materials (images, videos, etc.), and at least ONE should be a primary source (ex: Fitrat’s debate, Bolshevik propaganda poster). You do not need: Cover page, separate bibliography Topic: Evaluate at least one way in which Eurasian Muslims, or a subset of these Muslims (e.g., women, Central Asian intellectuals, Sino-Muslims), experienced one or more of the changes sweeping Eurasia in the early twentieth century (reform currents such as jadidism, nationalism, regime change, communism) and responded. Detailed instructions: The early twentieth century brought many changes for the Muslims of Eurasia, both in the form of new ideas, such as nationalism and communism, and in the form of political change – the demise of multiethnic empires, such as the Russian Empire, Qing Empire, and Ottoman Empire, and the rise of new states, in particulary the Soviet Union, formed after the Bolshevik seizure of power in the Russian Empire in 1917, and the Republic of China, formed when the nationalist Guomindang took power from the Qing dynasty, followed by the Communists coming to power in 1949 and the formation of the PRC (though the rise of new states such as the Republic of Turkey also had meaning for Eurasian Muslims!). Muslim communities responded to these changes in a number of different ways, including rethinking Islamic modernity and negotiating attacks on Muslim customs and traditions, envisioning different forms of the “nation,” and collaborating with new regimes to try to win more autonomy for Eurasian Muslims. Some examples of appropriate approaches to the assignment: Jadidist approach to reforming Islam; how Eurasian Muslim intellectuals thought about the nation; changes brought by the Bolshevik Revolution to Soviet Muslim women. You may choose to focus on just Russia/the Soviet Union or just China, or you could write a transnational or comparative paper. Including the late-nineteenth century is fine. Remember that every good history essay takes a position, and yours should as well. A good thesis is one that your reader might argue against – but with enough evidence in the body of the essay, your reader should be convinced by the end of the essay that your interpretation/position is a good one. On sources: You may include materials from your own research if you choose. There is no maximum number of citations or sources, but three MUST be from what I sent you. Resources (I will attach non-link sources): On the jadids and women: Ross Making Muslim Women Political _ Imagining the Wartime Woman in the Russian Muslim Women’s Journal Suyumbika.pdfPreview the document Jadidist writings (primary sources): On Modernist Islam: A Sourcebook (section on Russian Empire) (Links to an external site.) On Soviet Muslim women: Edgar Bolshevism Patriarchy Nation.pdfPreview the document Kamp Debating Sharia Muslim Women’s Congress 1917.pdfPreview the document On nationalism in China: Esherick How the Qing Became China.pdfPreview the document On the Uyghurs: Brophy, “The Uyghurs: Making a Nation” (full) (Links to an external site.) Thum, “The Uyghurs in Modern China” (full) (Links to an external site.) On Chinese Muslim warlords: Familiar_Strangers_A_History_of_Muslims_in_Northwe…_—-_(5._Strategies_of_Integration_Muslims_in_New_China_).pdfPreview the document On Islam in Soviet Central Asia: Keller Islam in Soviet Central Asia.pdfPreview the document On the Ottoman and Japanese Empires, Pan-Islamism and Pan-Asianism: Aydin PanIslamism and PanAsianism.pdfPreview the document