Historical Background
There are 21 settlements within the Kashkadarya region that were established by Arabs. Among them are Arabaul, Arabon, Arabkhona, Arabsoy, etc. 50 km to the West of Karshi, the capital of the Kashkadarya region, on the territory of Usman Yusupov administrative district. One of these settlements is the Djeynau shirkat. In Arabic, zhina means we came. In 758-780, Arabs actively resettled on the territory of Central Asia; they saw their mission as bringing the Word of the Prophet to the region. From that time and up to the early 20th century, Arabs, including those who settled in Djeynau village, have mainly dealt with religious education, worshipping, livestock and crop raising.
In the late 19th - early 20th centuries, when there was a transition from Arabic writing to Latin, and than to Cyrillic, many Djeynau inhabitants could not learn new writing. By the Soviet standard they were considered to be illiterate (even though they could fluently read the Koran). Only in the middle of the 20th century the population reached the middle of the national level of literacy. As old-aged people recall, in school they spoke and studied in Uzbek, but at home they spoke Arabic. During the Soviet period, most of Arabs (probably representing many other nationalities) changed their nationality to the titular one - Uzbek.
