REWRITING THE SUFI SAINT IN UZBEK CLASSICAL LITERATURE: NARRATIVE EXPANSION, FAMILY ETHICS, AND LYRICIZATION IN HUVAYDO’S “HIKOYATI IBROHIM BIN ADHAM”

This study examines how Xo‘janazar Huvaydo reworks the transregional hagiographic tradition of Ibrāhīm ibn Adham in the “Hikoyati Ibrohim bin Adham rahmatulloh alayhi” episode of Rohati dil. Rather than treating the episode as merely a repetition of an inherited Sufi plot, the article argues that Huvaydo creates a distinctive Uzbek literary configuration through three interrelated strategies: narrative expansion, family-centered ethical conflict, and lyricization of the hagiographic tale. Comparative close reading places Huvaydo in dialogue with ʿAttar’s Tazkirat ul-avliyo, Alisher Navoiy’s Nasoyim ul-muhabbat and Hayrat ul-abror, and classical Sufi biographical traditions represented by Al-Qushayri. The analysis shows that Huvaydo extends the saint’s story backward through genealogy and his mother’s apparent death and recovery, then forward through marriage, fatherhood, separation, bereavement, and posthumous confirmation. Embedded ghazals and marsiya forms shift focalization away from the saint alone toward Zulhayo and Muhammad, rendering renunciation emotionally costly rather than merely exemplary. The Kaʿba–Rābiʿa episode further reframes ritual achievement through compassion and divine favor. These structural innovations transform a mobile hagiographic tradition into a quasi-qissa whose didactic force arises from the tension between human attachment and mystical exclusivity. Huvaydo’s originality thus lies in reorganizing inherited materials into an emotionally plural, genre-hybrid narrative form for Uzbek readers.

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