Rabia Al-Adawiyya

Rabia Al-Adawiyya

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Female Sufi scholar and saint (died 801)

About Rabia Al-Adawiyya

Rābiʼa al-ʼAdawiyya al-Qaysiyya or Rabia Basri was a poet, one of the earliest Sufi mystics and an influential religious figure from Basra. Her full name is said to be Rābiʿa bint Ismāʿīl; her kunya was Umm ʿAmr, her wilāya was al-ʿAtakiyyah, and her nisba was al-ʿAdawiyya or al-Qaysīyya because she was a freed slave of the tribe of Qays ibn ʿAdī. She is regarded as one of the three preeminent Qalandars of the world.

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Rabi'a Al-Adawiyya - Life and Poems

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