Jahonotin Uvaysiy

Jahonotin Uvaysiy (1780–1845) was a Sufi poet from Margilon in the Ferghana Valley in Uzbekistan. She was an Otin-Oys, an Uzbek religious woman held in great esteem.[1]

She produced over 15,000 hemistiches of verse and it is still popular in Uzbekistan today. The Institute of the Academy of Science of the Republic of Uzbekistan in Tashkent has a collection of her works.[2] Her father, Siddik Bobo, was an admirer of literature who wrote poems in two languages. Her mother, Chinbibi was also an otin.[3]

Bibliography
Wikiquote has quotations related to Jahonotin Uvaysiy.
  • Uvaysiy. Devon. Tashkent, 1963
  • Uvaysiy. Ko’ngil gulzori (The flower-bed of the soul). Tashkent, 1983.
  • E.Ibrohimova. Uvaysiy. Tashkent, 1963.
  • T.Jalolov. O’zbek shoiralari. (Uzbek poetess). Tashkent, 1970.
  • I.Hakkulov. Uvaysiy she’riyati. (The poetry of Uvaysi). Tashkent, 1982.

References
  1. Female Celebrations in Uzbekistan and Afghanistan: The Power of Cosmology in Musical Rites by Razia Sultanova, in The 2008 Yearbook For Traditional Music, Volume 40, page 14
  2. Female Sufism in Central Asia: from poetry to music by Razia Sultanova, in Conference on Music in the World of Islam 8–13 August 2007
  3. Jahonotin Uvaysiy (1781-1845) ziyouz.uz, 29 September 2012


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