Rabia al-Adawiyya
Rabi'a from Narrative to Myth
Academic study
Rabi'a from Narrative to Myth
Rabi'a from Narrative to Myth (Rkia Elaroui Cornell)

The most thorough study of Rabia: it examines more primary sources than any previous work to separate what can be historically affirmed from the successive constructions of her figure (the teacher, the ascetic, the lover, the Sufi) and reconstructs the development of early asceticism and mysticism in Basra.
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Authorship note
A critical study by Rkia Elaroui Cornell. It is not a work by Rabia.
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English
Rabia al-Adawiyya
Rabi'a from Narrative to Myth: The Many Faces of Islam's Most Famous Woman Saint
The Conscious LibraryRabi'a from Narrative to Myth: The Many Faces of Islam's Most Famous Woman Saint
Oneworld Academic, 2019
ISBN 9781786075222
Other works by Rabia al-Adawiyya
- The Two Loves (attributed verses) · 996
- I Have Made You the Confidant of My Heart (attributed verses) · 1000
- Prayers and Sayings in Attar's Memorial of the Saints · 1221
- Ascetic Sayings Transmitted with Chains (Ibn Abi l-Dunya, al-Dhahabi) · 894
- Sayings in al-Sulami and al-Qushayri's Epistle · 1045
- First among Sufis · 1982
- Rabi'a the Mystic and Her Fellow-Saints in Islam · 1928
- Doorkeeper of the Heart: Versions of Rabi'a · 1988
Sources
- Cornell, Rkia Elaroui. Rabi'a from Narrative to Myth: The Many Faces of Islam's Most Famous Woman Saint, Rabi'a al-'Adawiyya. Londres: Oneworld Academic, 2019.
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