Jahonotin Uvaysiy Quotes

Jahonotin Uvaysiy , 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.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.

Her father, Siddik Bobo, was an admirer of literature who wrote poems in two languages. Her mother, Chinbibi was also an otin. Wikipedia  

✵ 1781 – 1845
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Jahonotin Uvaysiy Quotes

“If I build a castle of love [i. e., mystical knowledge]
for the suffering people, they kill me!
If I don’t build I die!”

(Uvaysiy 1980:58) Quoted in Female Celebrations in Uzbekistan and Afghanistan: The Power of Cosmology in Musical Rites http://raziasultanova.co.uk/YTM%2008-Sultanova-FINAL.pdf by Razia Sultanova, in The 2008 Yearbook For Traditional Music, Volume 40, page 14

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