RABI\'A AL-ADAWIYYA: Life & Poems Translation & Introduction Paul Smith RABI\'A OF BASRA (717-801). www.newhumanitybooks.com.
Lalla Ded, Mahsati, Ibn \'Arabi and others, and his own poetry, fiction, plays, biographies, children\'s books, screenplays.
Paul Smith is a poet, author and translator of many books of Sufi poets from the Persian, Arabic, Urdu, Turkish, Pashtu and other languages including Hafiz, Sadi, Nizami, Rumi, \'Attar, Sana\'i, Jahan Khatun, Obeyd Zakani, Mu\'in, Amir Khusrau, Nesimi, Kabir, Anvari, Ansari, Jami, Khayyam, Rudaki, Yunus Emre. 90-120 pages each.
Introduction to Sufi Poets Series \'AISHAH Al-BA\'UNIYAH, AMIR KHUSRAU, ANSARI, ANVARI, AL-MA\'ARRI, \'ARIFI, \'ATTAR, ABU SA\'ID, AUHAD UD-DIN, BABA FARID, BABA AZFAL, BABA TAHIR, BEDIL, BULLEH SHAH, DARA SHIKOH, GHALIB, GHANI KASHMIRI, HAFIZ, HASAN DEHLAVI, IBN \'ARABI, IBN YAMIN, IBN AL-FARID, IQBAL, INAYAT KHAN, \'IRAQI, JAHAN KHATUN, JAMI, JIGAR, KAMAL AD-DIN, KABIR, KHAQANI, KHAYYAM, LALLA DED, MAKHFI, MANSUR HALLAJ, MIR, MU\'IN UD-DIN CHISHTI, NAZIR, NESIMI, NIZAMI, NUND RISHI, OBEYD ZAKANI, RABI\'A, RAHMAN BABA, RUMI, SADI, SA\'IB, SANA\'I, SARMAD, SHABISTARI, SHAH LATIF, SHAH NI\'MAT\'ULLAH, SULTAN BAHU, YUNUS EMRE, EARLY ARABIC SUFI POETS, EARLY PERSIAN SUFI POETS, URDU SUFI POETS, ETC.
Pages 107.
Included with a selection of her few Poems in the correct form & meaning is a biography, selected bibliography and essay on Sufi Poetry.
She was the first in a long line of female Sufi mystics.
She is widely considered to be the most important of the early Sufi poets.
She was the first to introduce the idea that God should be loved for God\'s own sake.
More interesting than her absolute asceticism, however, is the actual concept of Divine Love that Rabi\'a introduced.
She also had discussions with many of the renowned religious people of her time.
As her fame grew she had many disciples.
Throughout her life, her Love of God, poverty and self-denial did not waver.
Her Spiritual Master was Hazrat Hassan Basri.
RABI\'A AL-ADAWIYYA: Life & Poems Translation & Introduction Paul Smith RABI\'A OF BASRA (717-801)
