2022
REFLECTION OF SPIRIT OF THE EPOCH IN THE JOURNAL “OINA”
Authors: Mirzoyunys Matluba, doctor of Philology, Professor of modern Tajik literature department under SEI “Khujand State University named after acad.B.Gafurov” (Tajikistan, Khujand)
JOURNAL NUMBER: 4(73). YEAR OF ISSUE: 2022. LANGUAGE OF THE ARTICLE: Tajik
ANNOTATION
The article dwells on the study of the issue over reflection of spirit of the times in the journal “Oina”. The author notes the importance of the press of the early twentieth century and three publications in the Tajik language - the newspapers "Bukhoroi Sharif", "Samarkand" and the journal "Oina" and their role in the spiritual life of the Tajik intellectuals, as well as the place of the journal "Oina" not only in reflection of the spirit era, but also in the promotion of advanced ideas, enlightenment, education of worthy qualities, the study of literature, theater, modern sciences, national history of geography, medicine, etc. It has been argued that the merits of its editor-in-chief Mahmudhoji Behbudi and his associates Saidrizo Alizoda, Fahriddin Roji, Hoji Muin Shukrullo (Mehri) are especially significant in promotion of the journal activities. The materials of the journal about the upbringing of the younger generation, the reform in education, the ways of the development of society are reflected in the form of journalistic articles, interviews, news and social and political poetry.The author comes to the conclusion that this publication, as the first journal that covers materials in the Tajik language, is of great importance not only in reflection of the era spirit, but also in formation of new views among the Tajik intellectuals and a new worldview throughout Central Asia.
KEY WORDS
“Oina”, press, Mahmudhoja Behbudi, journal, edition, enlightenment