The epistemological status of religious belief in the post-Soviet states of Central Asia, particularly in Uzbekistan, reflects a complex historical trajectory shaped by Soviet atheist policies, the collapse of Marxist-Leninist epistemology, and the subsequent revival of religious consciousness. Under Soviet rule, religious knowledge was systematically marginalized as unscientific, with dialectical materialism serving as the official epistemological foundation. The Uzbek intellectual elite—including those influenced by the Jadid movement and later scholars of the Soviet era—faced significant restrictions in engaging with religious philosophy, as faith was dismissed as an ideological remnant of a pre-modern society. The state-sponsored atheism of the Soviet period sought to eradicate religious epistemology by replacing it with scientific rationalism, leading to a generational rupture in religious intellectual traditions.