The Sufi Saint Poetess Rābiʼa al-ʼAdawiyya al-Qaysiyya (c. 717 – 801 AD), also know as Rābiʼa Al-Baṣriya (Rabia from Basra), is one of the most famous sufi saint women within Islamic traditions & history and among the most distinguished of female poets within the Arabic poetic tradition. This video aims to bring some knowledge about her into the public and explain her in her context within the greater history of Islam & Sufism (Islamic Mysticism).

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‘Abd al-Rahman Badawi, 1978 [1948], Shahidat al- 'ishq al-ilahi Rabi’a al- ‘Adawiyya , Kuwait: Wakkalat al-Matbu’at

Abu Talib al-Makki, Muhammad ibn ‘Ali b. ‘Atiyya, Qut al-qulub fi mu’malat al-Mahbub wa wasf tariq al-murid ila maqam al-tawhid, edited by Basil ‘Uyun al-Sadr (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-Tlmiyya, 1997

Ahmed, Leila (1992). Women and Gender in Islam. Yale University.

Attar, Farid od-Din Mohammad ebn Ebrahim, Muslim saints and mystics: episodes from the Tadhkirat al-Auliyaʾ ("Memorial of the saints"), Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1966

Cornell, Rkia Elaroui, 2019, "Rabi‘a from Narrative to Myth : The Many Faces of Islam's Most Famous Woman Saint, Rabi‘a al-‘Adawiyya" [Elektronisk resurs].

Cornell, Rkia Elaroui, 1999, Early Sufi Women: Dhikr an-niswa al-muta 'abbidat as sufiyyat: A Bilingual Critical Edition of as Sulami's Dikr An-Niswa Al-Muta 'abbitdat As-Sufuyyat

El Sakkakini, Widad. 1982. First among Sufis: the life and thought of Rabia al-Adawiyya, the woman Saint of Basra. London, UK: Octagon Press.

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