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 women held in great esteem.[1]

She is known to have 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
  • 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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