An edition of Muslim women mystics (2001)

Muslim women mystics

the life and work of Rábiʻa and other women mystics in Islam

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Muslim women mystics

the life and work of Rábiʻa and other women mystics in Islam

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Language
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Pages
249

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Biography, Doctrines, Femmes mystiques, Islam, Muslim women saints, Mysticisme, Saintes musulmanes, Soefisme, Soufisme, Sufism, Vrouwen, Women in Islam, Women mystics, Muslim women, Mysticism, islam, Women, biography, Mysticism

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Rābiʻah al-ʻAdawīyah (d. 801?), Rābiʻah al-ʻAdawīyah (m. 801?)
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Muslim women mystics: the life and work of Rábiʻa and other women mystics in Islam
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Table of Contents

I: The life of Rábiʻa
Rábiʻa al-ʻAdawiyya: her birth and early years
Rábiʻa's choice of celibacy
Rábiʻa's asceticism and prayer-life
Miracles
Rábiʻa's declining years
II: Rábiʻa's teaching and writings
The Súfí doctrine
Repentance, patience, gratitude
Hope and fear
Poverty, renunciation, unification, dependence
Love, gnosis, the vision, union
III: Women mystics in Islám
The position of woman in Muslim lands
The position attained by the woman saint
Celibacy and the monastic life
The communion of saints
The cult of women saints in modern Islám.

Edition Notes

Originally published as: Rábiʻa. 1994.

Originally a Ph. D. Thesis--University of London.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Oxford
Series
Great Islamic thinkers
Genre
Biography.

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Dewey Decimal Class
297.4
Library of Congress
BP189, BP80.R3 S6 2001

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249 p. ;
Number of pages
249

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OL20191553M
Internet Archive
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ISBN 10
1851682503
OCLC/WorldCat
47150451
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2406854
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1112555

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