Editing Uzbeks (section)

==Etymology==
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The origin of the word ''Uzbek'' is disputed. One view holds that it is [[eponym]]ously named after [[Oghuz Khagan]], also known as ''Oghuz Beg'', became the word ''Uzbeg'' or ''Uzbek''.<ref name="H. Keane, A. Hingston Quiggin p.312">A. H. Keane, A. Hingston Quiggin, A. C. Haddon, Man: Past and Present, p.312, Cambridge University Press, 2011, Google Books, quoted: "Who take their name from a mythical Uz-beg, Prince Uz (beg in Turki=a chief, or hereditary ruler)."</ref> Another theory states that the name means ''independent'', ''genuine man'', or the ''lord himself'', from ''Öz'' (self) and the Turkic title ''[[Bey|bek/bey/beg]]''. A third theory holds that the variant ''Uz'', of the word ''uğuz'', earlier ''oğuz'', united with the word ''bek'' to form ''Uğuz-bek'' > ''Uz-bek'', meaning "leader of an oğuz".<ref>{{cite book|last=MacLeod|first=Calum|title=Uzbekistan: Golden Road to Samarkand|page=31|author2=Bradley Mayhew }}{{unreliable source?|date=September 2013}}</ref>

The personal name "Uzbek" is found in Arabic and Persian historical writings. Historian [[Usama ibn Munqidh]] (d. 1188), describing the events in Iran under the [[Seljuk Empire]], notes that one of the leaders of Bursuk's troops in 1115–1116 was the "emir of the troops" Uzbek, the ruler of Mosul.<ref>Usama ibn Munkyz. Kniga nazidaniya. per. Yu. I. Krachkovskogo. Moscow, 1958, p.134</ref> According to Rashid ad-din, the last representative of the Oghuz dynasty of Ildegizids who ruled in Tabriz was Uzbek Muzaffar 1210–1225.<ref>''Rashid ad-din''. Sbornik letopisey. T.1., kn.1. Moscow, 1952</ref>

The name Uzbek seems to have become widely adopted as an ethnonym under the rule of [[Ozbeg Khan]], who converted the [[Golden Horde]] to Islam.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Marlene Laruelle |title=Constructing the Uzbek State: Narratives of Post-Soviet Years |date=2017 |publisher=Lexington Books |isbn=9781498538374 |page=241}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Joo-Yup Lee |title=Qazaqlïq, or Ambitious Brigandage, and the Formation of the Qazaqs: State and Identity in Post-Mongol Central Eurasia |date=2015 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=9789004306493 |page=121}}</ref>