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Female Sufi scholar and saint (died 801)

For the Pakistani politician, see Rabia Basri (politician).

Rābiʼa al-ʼAdawiyya al-Qaysiyya (Arabic: رابعة العدوية القيسية; c. 716 – 801 CE)^[1] or Rabia Basri was a poet, one of the earliest Sufi mystics and an influential religious figure from Iraq.^[2] She is regarded as one of the three preeminent Qalandars of the world.^[3]

Biography

Very little is known about the life of Rabiʿa, notes Rkia Elaroui Cornell.

What historical information can be ascertained from the earliest sources on Rabi‘a? As stated above, there is very little except to confirm that a Muslim woman ascetic and teacher named Rabi‘a al-‘Adawiyya or Rabi‘a al-Qaysiyya (the name ‘Adawiyya refers to her clan and the name Qaysiyya refers to her tribe) lived in or around the city of Basra in southern Iraq in the eighth century CE.

[...] The commonly accepted birth date of 717 CE and death