Bukhara-yi Sharif

Bukhara-yi Sharif (Persian: بخارای شریف, romanized: The Noble Bukhara) was the first Persian newspaper in Central Asia, published in the Emirate of Bukhara, which was a protectorate of the Russian Empire.^[1][2] It was active from 24 March 1912 to 15 January 1913.^[1]

Based in Novaya Bukhara (Kagan), near Bukhara, it was published by the Jadids with Russian support. The Bukhara-yi Sharif appeared six times weekly during the first four months, then three times, and finally just twice in the last months. The newspaper was an outlet of the Jadid Young Bukharans, even though this was never stated explicitly.^[1]

The group that started the newspaper was composed of six Bukharans, six Russians, and three Persians. Its editor was Mirza Jalal Yusifzade, a Shia Muslim journalist from the Caucasus, who had authored several educational and literary works in both Persian and Turkic.^[1]

Leaders of the Bukharan modernist intellectual movement, including prominent authors like Abdurauf Fitrat and Sadriddin Ayni, followed the newspaper.^[1]

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