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Rabi'a the Mystic and Her Fellow-Saints in Islam
Rabi'a the Mystic and Her Fellow-Saints in Islam (Margaret Smith)
It collects and translates the stories and sayings attributed to Rabia in Arabic and Persian sources, from the Sufi manuals to Attar, and places them in the context of Basran asceticism and of other women saints of Islam. For ninety years it was the obligatory reference; Cornell (2019) has revised its tendency to accept late stories as historical.
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Authorship note
Monograph by Margaret Smith (1884–1970), the first devoted to Rabia in a Western language. It is not a work by Rabia. It fixed the dates 717–801 and much of the hagiographic image in the West.
Editions and translations
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English
Rabia al-Adawiyya
Rabi'a the Mystic and Her Fellow-Saints in Islam
The Conscious LibraryRabi'a the Mystic and Her Fellow-Saints in Islam
Rainbow Bridge, 1984
ISBN 0914198106
Rabi'a the Mystic and Her Fellow-Saints in Islam
Cambridge University Press, 1984
ISBN 0521318637
Reedición con introducción de Annemarie Schimmel; primera edición, 1928; reimpr. digital 2010: 9781108015912.
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 from Narrative to Myth · 2019
- Doorkeeper of the Heart: Versions of Rabi'a · 1988
Sources
- Smith, Margaret. Rabi'a the Mystic and Her Fellow-Saints in Islam. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1928; reed. 1984 con introducción de Annemarie Schimmel.
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