# Rabia

Rabia or Rabiah is the transliteration of two Arabic names written differently in Arabic text however they may be written similarly in the Latin script:
* An Arabic, usually female name ربيعة) meaning "Spring"
* An Arabic, female name (Rābiʿah رابعة) or Rabeya meaning "spring" or "fourth female"
Rabia or Rabiah may refer to:

## People
### Male name Rabīʿah (ربيعة)

* Rabiah ibn Kab, a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad
* Rabiah ibn Mudhar (6th-century), Jewish king in present-day Yemen
* Ayyash ibn Abi Rabiah (died 636), companion of Muhammad
* Utbah ibn Rabi'ah (died 624), pre-Islamic Arab tribal leader
* Salman ibn Rabiah (died 650), military governor of Armenia
* Abd ar-Rahman ibn Rabiah (died 652), Arab general of the Rashidun Caliphate
* Fouad Mahmoud al Rabiah (born 1959), Kuwaiti national formerly imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay
* Robert Rabiah (born 1986), Australian film actor and writer
* Tawfiq Al Rabiah (born 1965), Saudi minister
* Abu Hamza Rabia (died 2005), Egyptian member of al-Qaeda
* Hamad Abu Rabia (1929–1981), Israeli-Arab politician
* Hassan Rabia (born 1984), Omani footballer
* Mohammed Rabia Al-Noobi (born 1981), Omani footballer
* Ramy Rabia (born 1993), Egyptian footballer
* Rabia Makhloufi (born 1986), Algerian steeplechase runner

### Female name Rābiʿah (رابعة)

* Rabia Akyürek (born 1999), Turkish wheelchair basketball player
* Rabia of Basra (710s–801), female Muslim Sufi saint
* Rabia Balkhi (10th century), semi-legendary figure of Persian literature
* Rabia Bala Hatun (died 1324), haseki of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed IV, mother and Valide Sultan of Sultan Mustafa II and Ahmed III
* Rabia Sultan (died 1712), haseki of Ottoman Sultan Ahmed II
* Rabia Şermi Kadın (died 1732), consort of Sultan Ahmed III and mother of Sultan Abdülhamid I
* Cheikha Rabia (born 1944), Algerian singer
* Rabia Ashiq (born 1992), Pakistani athlete
* Rabia Butt, Pakistani model and actress
* Rabia Cirit (born 1998), Turkish female para-athlete
* Rabia Kayahan (born 2000), Turkish female armwrestler
* Rabia Kazan (born 1976), Turkish journalist
* Rabia Qari, Pakistani barrister
* Rabiah Hutchinson (born 1953), Australian militant Islamist leader
* Sarab Abu-Rabia-Queder (born 1976), Israeli Bedouin anthropologist and sociologist

### Rabeya

* Rabeya Alim (born 1950), Bangladesh Awami League politician
* Rabeya Chowdhury (fl. 1979–2006), Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician
* Rabeya Khan, Bangladeshi cricketer
* Rabeya Khatun (1935–2021), Bangladeshi novelist
* Rabeya Müller (1957–2024), German Islamic scholar
* Rabia Bhuiyan (fl. 1996–2001), Jatiya Party (Ershad) politician

## Places

* Al-Rabiaa, a village in northwestern Syria
* Diyar Rabi'a, the medieval Arabic name of the easternmost province of the Jazira (Upper Mesopotamia)
* Oum Rabia, a commune in Khénifra Province, Béni Mellal-Khénifra, Morocco
* Rabia, Iraq, a small border crossing town between Iraq and Syria
* Rabia, Syria, a town in the Latakia Governorate, northwestern Syria

## Other uses

* Rabīʿa, an Arab tribe
* Rabia School, Luton, Bedfordshire, England.
* Rabaa Al-Adawiya Mosque, a mosque in Cairo, Egypt
* Rabia sign, a hand gesture
* Rabeya (2008 film), Bangladeshi film