Muslim women mystics
Subtitle: the life and work of Rábiʻa and other women mystics in Islam
By: Margaret Smith.
Series: Great Islamic thinkers
Publisher: Oneworld
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
Subjects: Rābiʻah al-ʻAdawīyah, -- d. 801?; Rābiʻah al-ʻAdawīyah, -- m. 801?; Women mystics -- Biography.; Muslim women saints.; Women in Islam.; Sufism -- Doctrines.; Saintes musulmanes.; Mysticisme -- Islam.; Soufisme.; Femmes mystiques.; Soefisme.; Vrouwen.
Genres: Biography.
Work titles: Rábiʻa
Notes: Originally published as: Rábiʻa. 1994.

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

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