The Protagonist’s Spiritual Crisis and Artistic Psychologism in Salomat Vafo’s Short Story “Muqaddas Manzil” (“The Sacred Destination”)

This article examines the protagonist’s inner world and the issue of artistic psychologism in “Muqaddas Manzil” (“The Sacred Destination”), a short story by the prominent Uzbek writer Salomat Vafo. Through the character of the protagonist, Tufa, the article analyzes how the conventional stereotype of the “patient and obedient mother” in traditional Uzbek literature is challenged, revealing instead the tragedy of a real woman undergoing a spiritual crisis under societal pressure. The findings are of practical significance for studying the concept of womanhood and psychological realism in contemporary Uzbek prose.