The Babakhan family held this role for three generations, spanning nearly the entire length of SADUM's existence. Ziyaudin Babakhan removed Muhammadjan Hindustani from the Council of Ulema after Hindustani denounced him as a "Wahhabist". "Wahhabist" was a derogatory term used in the Ferghana Valley region for scholars whose "fatwas" deviated from traditional Hanafi interpretations. In March 1989 an internal coup was organized against the last Babakhan mufti by Muhammad-Sodiq Muhammad Yusuf, a foreign-educated imam from Andijon. After the fall of the Soviet Union and the fracture of SADUM into independent state-run organizations, Muhammad Yusuf became the first mufti of Uzbekistan, but was removed from office in 1993. SADUM included a special publishing department which printed and distributed a variety of literature. A journal, "Muslims of the Soviet East" was consistently published in four languages (Arabic, French, English, and Uzbek) starting in 1969. The Council of the Ulama acted as the journal's editorial board. SADUM also supported several printings of the Qur'an. The first printing was in 1957, while a second printing based on an Egyptian model, was published in 1960. From 1969 and 1970 another version, based on a local 1913 Qur'an written in the "naskh" script, was published. A fourth round of Qur'ans were published in 1977. Publications by SADUM include: