Abstract. The article describes the emergence of the Jadidism movement in Central Asia at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, and the formation of not only the Jadidism movement, but also other ideological doctrines, as well as the foundation of Jadidism, the foundation of Jadidism, the establishment of Jadid schools, which appeared in Turkestan in the second half of the 19th century. Newspapers and magazines published by the progressive representatives of modernism in Turkestan are mentioned as a characteristic feature of the development of socio-philosophical thinking.