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Abstract

This article analyzes the mechanisms related to the Islamic factor in the era of Uzbekistan's new development strategy.

In Uzbekistan, the Third Renaissance Policy is being established as a state policy aimed at creating a New Uzbekistan. In the era of global challenges, national identity, formed under synergetic conditions, is realized through crises of religious and national identity. The study of national identity in post-independence Uzbekistan poses significant challenges. Modern anthropological theories and unified paradigmatic criteria are not sufficient tools for understanding this complex phenomenon.

On the one hand, religion and nation, acting as the main factor of identity formation, simultaneously form a single organism. Because at a time when global wars were escalating in the modern world, Islam is a powerful political and regional defense tool to protect Uzbekistan from external attacks. On the other hand, at the same time, religion is being shaped as a social system that alienates the nation from the roots of nationhood. This is due to the fact that the stereotypes of religious identity of the independence period are fundamentally different from its historical form.

In the history of Uzbekistan, national and religious identity have been social systems that have shaped statehood on the basis of mutual symbiosis. In current time, there are mechanisms in which these two systems work in opposition to each other. This can be seen in the following: 1) The Islamic history of Central Asia developed on the basis of the traditions of the Hanafi madhhab. The revival of Islamic values during the years of independence brought new Islamic movements, different from the Hanafi madhhab, to a people whose Hanafi school had been detached from its Islamic roots for almost a century and a half. 2) The process of global desecularization has led to the introduction of radical, everyday and fundamental elements of Middle Eastern Islamic movements into Uzbekistan through propaganda in social networks. This is a potential threat to undermine the foundations of national statehood. 3) The Islamic factor of the New Era contains elements of Islamic feminism and cosmopolitanism. This quality began to have a destructive impact on the family, youth mentality in the country.

From this point of view, it is important to reveal the influence of the religious factor on the secular character and legal foundations of the state in Uzbekistan, the need to strengthen secularism, mechanisms for the beneficial integration of religious values into society.