Rabia Basri

Rābiʼa al-ʼAdawiyya al-Qaysiyya
Depiction of Rabiʼa grinding grain from a Persian dictionary
Bornbetween 714 and 718 CE (?)
Died801 CE (?)
Academic background
InfluencesHasan of Basra
Academic work
Era
Main interestsSufism, asceticism, divine love
Notable ideasDivine love

Rābiʼa al-ʼAdawiyya al-Qaysiyya (Arabic: رابعة العدوية القيسية; c. 716 – 801 CE) or Rabia Basri was a poet, one of the earliest Sufi mystics and an influential religious figure from Iraq. She is regarded as one of the three preeminent Qalandars of the world.

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