Uzbek tribes

Traditionally, it is believed that there are 92 clans and tribes of Uzbeks in the old sense of the term of nomadic Desht-i-Kipchak origin. As the modern historian T.Sultanov has established, these 92 "tribes" include "the names of the majority of Turkic and some non—Turkic ethnic groups that inhabited Central Asia at that time".

There is a legend that 92 people went to Medina, where they took part in the war of the Prophet Muhammad against the kafirs and were converted to Islam by Saint Shah-i Mardan. Of these 92 people, according to legend, the "Uzbek" tribes supposedly originated, which are also called in the text by the common name ilatiya.

To date, more than 18 lists of 92 Uzbek tribes are known, and all of them are compiled on the territory of Transoxiana, that is, the oases of the Central Asian basins of two rivers: Syr Darya and Amu Darya. The earliest list dates back to the XVI century, and the latest to the beginning of the XX century. One of the lists was recorded by N. V. Khanykov, who was in Bukhara in 1841.

Analyzing the lists of Uzbek tribes, it can be noted that most of them begin with the names of three tribes: Ming, Yuz and Qyrq.

There was also the Desht-i Qipchak Uzbek tribe Uyshun (Uysun), whose groups are known in the Tashkent and Samarkand oases, traces their origin to the Wusuns. Among Uzbeks, the Usun tribe is considered one of the most ancient among 92 Uzbek tribes and enjoyed certain privileges.^[2]

One of the lists of 92 Uzbek tribes compiled in Transoxiana lists tribes that lived in the oases of Central Asia long before the conquest of the region by Sheibani Khan. For example, in the list of manuscript 4330.3 from the collection of the Institute of Oriental Studies of Uzbekistan, you can find such types as: barlas, katagan, kipchak, uz, naiman, etc.

The poet Alisher Navoi in his works written in the XV century mentioned the ethnonym "Uzbek" as the name of one of the ethnic groups of Mawara al-Nahr.

The poet of the XVII century Turdy wrote about the ethnonym Uzbek as a unifying name for 92 tribes in Central Asia.

Notable people from some Uzbek tribes

Mings

Khudayar Khan, was a Khan of Kokand who reigned between 1845 and 1875 with interruptions. He was the son of Shir Ali Khan.
Nasruddin Khan (Uzbek: Nasriddin Bek), was the last ruler of Khanate of Kokand, son of Khudayar Khan.
Sevara Nazarkhan is an Uzbek singer, songwriter, and musician.

Manghits

Nasrullah Khan was the Emir of Bukhara from 24 April 1827 to 20 October 1860 from manghit dynasty. His father was Emir Haydar bin Shahmurad (1800–1826).
Sayyid Mir Muhammad Alim Khan (Uzbek: Said Mir Muhammad Olimxon, 3 January 1880 – 28 April 1944) was the last emir of the Uzbek Manghit dynasty, rulers of the Emirate of Bukhara in Central Asia.
Abdulla Oripov (Uzbek: Abdulla Oripov, 21 March 1941 – 5 November 2016) was an Uzbek poet, literary translator, and a politician. He is best known as the author of the lyrics to the State Anthem of Uzbekistan.

Qungrads

Muhammad Rahim Bahadur II (c. 1847–1910) was Khan of Khiva from 1864 to 1910, succeeding his father Sayyid Muhammad Khan. Khiva was turned into a Russian protectorate during his rule, in 1873.
Isfandiyar Khan, or Asfandiyar Khan (Uzbek: Isfandiyar-Xon; 1871 – 1 October 1918), was the Khan of Khiva between September 1910 and 1 October 1918, the 53rd Khan of Khiva, and the 12th Khongirad ruler of the Uzbeks.
Sayid Abdullah (1873–1933) was the last Khan of Khiva of the Uzbek Khongirad (Qungrat) dynasty, from 1 October 1918 until 1 February 1920. His father was Muhammad Rahim Khan II.

Yuz

Ogahi (full name is Muhammad Riza Erniyozbek oglu) (17.12.1809 - 14.12.1874) - Uzbek poet, historian, translator.
Munis Xorazmiy (full name: son of Shermuhammad Amir Avazbi) (1778 - Qiyat village near Khiva - 1829) is an Uzbek poet, historian, translator, and calligrapher.
Muhammadali Ahmedov - (born on March 1, 1942 in the Boz district of Andijan (now Boston)) is a poet, writer, scientist, translator, pedagogue and public figure.

Arlot

Abdul-Qādir Bedil — was an Indian Sufi, and considered one of the greatest Indo-Persian poets. His family in Putna (Azimabad) was descended from Uzbeks who had evidently migrated to Hindustan much earlier.^[3]^[4]

Notes

^ "A HEAVILY ARMED UZBEK. SAFAVID IRAN, MID 16TH CENTURY". Archived from the original on 2020-06-26. Retrieved 2014-02-12.
^ В.И. Бушков, Л.С. Толстова (2001). Население Средней Азии и Казахстана (Очерк этнической истории) (Сборник) (in Russian) (Расы и народы ed.). М.: «Наука». p. 154. ISBN 5-02-008738-6. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |agency= ignored (help)
^ Allworth Edward, The modern Uzbeks from the fourteenth century to the present: a cultural history, Hoover Press, 1990, p.74
His family in Putna (Azimabad) was descended from Uzbeks who had evidently migrated to Hindustan much earlier
^ http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/556016/South-Asian-arts/65196/Persian?anchor=ref532393
The greatest poet of the Indian style, however, was ʿAbdul Qādir Bēdil, born in 1644 in Patna, of Uzbek descent
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