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Jahonotin Uvaysiy
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Jahonotin Uvaysiy (1780–1845), was a Sufi poet from Margilor in the Ferghana Valley in Uzbekistan. She was an Otin-Oys, an Uzbek religious women held in great esteem.
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 by Razia Sultanova, in The 2008 Yearbook For Traditional Music, Volume 40, page 14
External links
Category:1780 births
Category:1845 deaths
Category:Poets from Uzbekistan
Category:Sufi poets