Later compilation
Sayings in al-Sulami and al-Qushayri's Epistle
ذكر النسوة المتعبدات الصوفيات؛ الرسالة القشيرية
In these manuals of classical Sufism Rabia already appears as a spiritual authority: her sayings on repentance as divine grace, on sincerity and on the love of God illustrate doctrinal chapters. Al-Sulami places her in a gallery of women ascetics and teachers, which shows that she was not an isolated case in eighth-century Basra.
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Authorship note
Sayings attributed to Rabia collected by al-Sulami (d. 1021) in his book on Sufi women and by al-Qushayri (d. 1072) in his Epistle, two and a half centuries after her death. Al-Sulami is also the first to distinguish three contemporary Rabias.
Editions and translations
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English
Al-Qushayri's Epistle on Sufism
Garnet Publishing / Ithaca Press, 2007
Translation: Alexander D. Knysh
ISBN 9781859641859
Rabia al-Adawiyya
Early Sufi Women: Dhikr an-Niswa al-Muta'abbidat as-Sufiyyat
The Conscious LibraryEarly Sufi Women: Dhikr an-Niswa al-Muta'abbidat as-Sufiyyat
Fons Vitae, 1999
Translation: Rkia Elaroui Cornell
ISBN 9781887752060
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- Rabi'a the Mystic and Her Fellow-Saints in Islam · 1928
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- Doorkeeper of the Heart: Versions of Rabi'a · 1988
Sources
- al-Sulami, Abu Abd al-Rahman. Dhikr al-niswa al-muta'abbidat al-sufiyyat. Ed. y trad. de Rkia Elaroui Cornell: Early Sufi Women. Louisville: Fons Vitae, 1999.
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