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]

  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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