Rabi'a: From Narrative to Myth by Rkia Elaroui Cornell

Rabi'a: From Narrative to Myth

Rkia Elaroui Cornell

416 pages • first pub 2019 (view editions)

nonfiction biography religion challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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A groundbreaking study of how Rabi‘a has been portrayed in Sufi, Islamic and secular literature from medieval to modern timesRabi‘a al-‘Adawiyya is a figure shrouded in myth. Certainly a woman by this name was born in Basra, Iraq, in the eighth ce...

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