Jahonotin Uvaysiy

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{{Infobox writer

| name = Jahonotin Uvaysiy

| birth_date = {{birth year|1781}}

| death_date = {{death date and age|1845|1781}}

| birth_name = Jahon

| occupation = Sufi poet

| birth_place = Margilan, Khanate of Kokand

| death_place = Margilan, Khanate of Kokand

| pseudonym = Uvaysiy

| language = Chagatai

}}

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.[http://raziasultanova.co.uk/YTM%2008-Sultanova-FINAL.pdf 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

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.[http://ligne13.maisondesculturesdumonde.org/sites/default/files/fichiers_attaches/sultanova-2007.pdf 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

Her father, Siddik Bobo, was an admirer of literature who wrote poems in two languages. Her mother, Chinbibi was also an otin.[http://www.ziyouz.uz/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=68:jahonotin-uvaysiy-1781-1845&catid=37:xvi-first-half-of-xix-century&Itemid=53 Jahonotin Uvaysiy (1781-1845)] ziyouz.uz, 29 September 2012