Rabia al-Adawiyya
First among Sufis
Academic study
First among Sufis
أم الخير رابعة العدوية / عاشقة متصوفة (Widad El Sakkakini)
A biography and study of Rabia's thought written from within the modern Arabic tradition, gathering the traditional stories with a sympathetic eye and relating them to the condition of women in Islam. Useful as a witness to contemporary reception rather than as a critical source.
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Authorship note
A biographical study by the Syrian writer Widad El Sakkakini, translated from Arabic by Nabil Safwat, with an introduction by Doris Lessing. It is not a work by Rabia.
Editions and translations
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English
Rabia al-Adawiyya
First among Sufis: The Life and Thought of Rabia al-Adawiyya
The Conscious LibraryFirst among Sufis: The Life and Thought of Rabia al-Adawiyya
Octagon Press, 1982
Translation: Nabil Safwat
ISBN 0900860456
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
- Rabi'a the Mystic and Her Fellow-Saints in Islam · 1928
- Rabi'a from Narrative to Myth · 2019
- 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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