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The name Uzbeks are referred to the nomadic warriors associated with Shaibani Khan and the Shaibanids. They are Turkic people who conquered most of modern Uzbekistan. The meaning of the word Uzbek is “Master of the Self”. The Uzbek population are in all modern central Asian countries, in addition to Afghanistan and Western China. Uzbekistan has land that contains dessert and mountains which is agriculturally inhospitable. Census done in 2000 showed that there are 24 million people in Uzbekistan and 75% of the population is ethnically Uzbeks.
Uzbeks speak Uzbek language, which are rooted in a postural nomadic Turkic past and that of Eurasian nomadic people such as the Huns, Turk, and Uighur. They have balanced farming and pastoralist lives with much merchandising and trading traditions associated with urban centers, but in the 19-century intensive agriculture was been introduced to Uzbeks. Most of the urban Uzbeks buy their own food and stuff from markets and shops although nearly all Uzbeks keep garden plots even in the cities both for fresh fruits and vegetables. Most of their economy is dependent on agriculture, but they also trade merchandise like cotton, oil, gold, and marble.
with regards to thier religion the Soviet regime introduce to them development of western biomedicine and, they used medicine and health policies as means of transimmiting their ideas of modernity and progress from center to the periphery, thus the propagation of western medicine was accompanied by the condemnation of indigenous, mainly religiously-based healing practices as background and even dangerous. Seventy years of anti religious policy and education has redudced the significance of religious healing, but after the independence of the Soviet the overall upsurge of interest in religion in all kind of local traditions including religious healing practices has increase dramatically.
Also, the Soviet regime created myth of Islam in one hand Islam is looked for spirituailty on the other hand Islam is seen as islamic extremist that callanges security and stability, and this makes Islam as treat to states security. Since Uzbekastan taken it's independence from Soviet Union the woman religious practitioner have not been limited to organizing the religious life, but they also manage their symbolic capital of their own females and community groups and played fundamental role in managing collective ritual practices. They have incorporated islam as an elment within their nation-building projects, and it played an important part in their lives , despite more than seventy years of official athesims.
Uzbeks practice patrilineal descent, and they don’t have the sense of retirement that we find in the western world. There are more than 100 Uzbek tribes. As Muslims, Uzbeks see marriage as a central and necessary part of the life of an individual. Polygyny is allowed under Islamic Sharia but later was banned by soviet power. Since its independence in 1991, polygyny has slowly returned to Uzbeks. The majority of the Uzbeks are Sunni Muslims also, Buddhism and Christianity exist in the territory of Uzbekistan's Zoroastrianism. They also observe major Muslim holidays including Ramadan and Eid. They have Muslim funerals, and they believe in the notion of heaven and hell, they also believe that there will be a judgment day for all the deceased.
Citations
Lubin, Nancy, and William Fierman. 2002. “Culture Summary: Uzbeks.” New Haven, Conn.: HRAF. https://ehrafworldcultures-yale-edu.northernkentuckyuniversity.idm.oclc.org/document?id=rn05-000.
Fathi, Habiba. 2006. “Gender, Islam, and Social Change in Uzbekistan.” Central Asian Survey 25 (3): 303–17. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ant&AN=XRAI2000s-65705&site=ehost-live.
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