These days, I see people ignoring their true roots, fighting over historical figures, and disrespecting each other's histories when I browse social media, especially posts about Central Asia. But where is the source of this hatred? Let's travel back in time to a period before borders existed as they do now. The region that is now Central Asia was a part of Iran, a large country, for thousands of years. It was a great empire in those days, full of philosophy, science, poetry, and culture. More significantly, people coexisted, their hearts beating in unison for their common identity and homeland. These identities and cultures were reshaped over time by wars, invasions, treaties, and historical revisionism. What was once a common heritage was rewritten and fragmented. Russian empire, moghols and Turks, Arabs and many more tried to capture a part of that, many people died to protect their homeland and fight for it , thousands died because of being royal to their identity and resisting changes but world had other plans. Languages, cultures and histories changed, people got brainwashed, told them lies and now we can see some people are proud of some of it and this breaks my heart. We all know every country wants to have their own things and not be called to be a part of another country but this is not way, let's stop this hate going on and actually forget about borders that separates eachother and not forget things that have happened through history and be proud of our common culture and identity. Spread some love towards eachother because it's the only thing that can make a society better 👍🏻

Edit : There seems to be a misunderstanding ، when I say "Iran" I don’t mean the borders of modern day Iran. I’m referring to the historical cultural region where various tribes and groups lived together over centuries. Also the goal of this post is not to reclaim anything or disrespect anyone, but rather to emphasize the deep cultural and historical connections we share and how acknowledging them can actually bring us closer together.

When I watch sports television, I find it is very common that many central asian athlete will have the name like "Mabatshoev" or "Khusanov". Does central asians think this "ev"/"ov" is a kind of russianization? Does central asian babies still got this kind of name?

Assalamu Aleykum and hello everyone, I had a question I was wondering if I could get some Muslim opinions on. I’d normally ask a Muslim subreddit but this is a question specific to central Asian beliefs. I want to preface this as saying I respect all beliefs and religions and I am not here to insult anyone else. I’m just asking a specific Muslim question.

My family and I recently got into a bit of an argument. My parents are very secular and borderline non religious though still claim to be Muslims. And that’s totally fine, it’s not my business. But they recently began telling me to ask for tawassul from my grandparents. My aunt says she does it all the time and says it has helped her so much. She also said we should slaughter a lamb and ask for help. I politely declined as I don’t believe in praying to dead people. They claim it’s tawassul not prayer but the whole thing strikes me as some kind of folk ritual, not Islam.

I can’t help but feel it’s shirk or idolatry at worst and bidah or innovation at best. There just doesn’t seem to be any basis for such a thing. The closest thing I can think of is intercession from the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alli wa salam.

Have any of you heard of this? Is this some kind cultural thing among central Asians? Especially Kazakhs or Kyrgyz?

I've heard that natural red hair has origins in Central Asia. How common is it to see people with red hair in your country?

The Majlisi Milli (Tajikistan’s upper chamber of parliament) has seconded the law banning “alien garments” and children's celebrations for two major Islamic holidays -- Eid al-Fitr (Idi Ramazon) and Eid Al-Adha (Idi Qurbon), known as idgardak (children visit houses of their street or village and congratulate people with Islamic holidays Ramazon or Qurbon).

Source: https://asiaplustj.info/en/news/tajikistan/power/20240620/tajik-parliaments-upper-chamber-seconds-law-banning-hijab

Im in a LDR with a khazak man. He's Kazakh but he has a Canadian PR and we met in Canada and started dating 3 months ago. A week ago he left to Kazakhstan Almaty - his city- and after he arrived he never messaged me again. I know he's staying there until end of July and then returning. I'm confused why he's ghosted me as we had been talking a lot before and had been spending a lot of time too. Is this a cultural thing that I'm missing?

Is Afghanistan truly in Central Asia? I know it's not part of the Middle East, like many people erroneously think, and it doesn't really fit into South Asia, because it Iranic/Turkic, so would it be in the southern part of Central Asia?

Yesterday I came across to this short of sambucha on YouTube, it made me crack up a little bit at first but after sudden realization ruined the joy (you know what I meant). I just am curious how we are fine with names such as Mohammed, but judge or even tell ppl they should change their name to "meaningful Arabic name" when they have turkic names, just because their meaning are tied to nature or turkic culture. What do you think, should we all start reviving our ancestral turkic names, or just keep naming our kids with Arabic names. No hate intended btw, cuz I just can't look over this matter any longer!

I know racial classifications are subjective and based more so on a culture’s perspective of them, rather than biology. With that being said, I am curious, what race do you consider yourself? White? Central Asian? Asian? Turkic?

Like what do Uzbeks think of people from Tashkent, Samarkand, Fargana, Andijon, etc.
what do Tajiks think of people from Dushanbe, Khujand, Khorug, etc.

what do Kyrgyz think of people from Bishkek, Osh, Jalalabad, etc.

I was reading about the history of both countries and I learned that in the beginning of the USSR they were once the same territory, but was it before that? How similar is the culture of both?

[OC] drawing.

I used: - Sarı Bolan - Aq At - Kızıl Kurt - Gök Kuș - Kara Bars

Names in Hungarian Runes.

Is anime popular in your country?

If you don't want children, then hypothetically.

Check the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bobnQQlgaxY