First Among Sufis: The Life and Thought of Rabia Al-Adawiyya, the Woman Saint of Basra by El Sakkakini Widad, Doris Lessing

First Among Sufis: The Life and Thought of Rabia Al-Adawiyya, the Woman Saint of Basra

El Sakkakini Widad, Doris Lessing

85 pages • first pub 1982 (editions)

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Born in Basra in the 8th century of an impoverished family, orphaned and sold into slavery, Rabia al-Adawiyya, rose to become one of the greatest Sufi teachers. An extraordinary kaleidoscope of myth and reality, of imagination and fact... is it no...

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