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Rkia Elaroui Cornell
Books by Rkia Elaroui Cornell
Rabi'a From Narrative to Myth
The Many Faces of Islam's Most Famous Woman Saint, Rabi'a al-'Adawiyya
Rabi‘a al-‘Adawiyya is a figure shrouded in myth. Certainly a woman by this name was born in Basra, Iraq, in the eighth century, but her life remains recorded only in legends, stories, poems and hagiographies. The various depictions of her – as a deeply spiritual ascetic, an existentialist rebel ...