Arabian Nights are 100% borrowed from Shaherizada. A lot of other Arabian things are actually of Uzbek origin. As for Alexander many of them consider him Uzbek too, probably because he has spent a lot of time there(which is quite silly but you would find him on any Greatest Uzbeks list anyway).
The Uzbyechka’s told me that their national heroes were either poets or conquerors.
Saw Tamerlane’s tomb in Samarkand. There was a curse on anyone who disturbed it. Stalin did, and then the Nazis invaded.