Rabi'a the mystic, A.D. 717-801, and her fellow saints in Islam: Being the life and teachings of Rabi'a al-'Adawiyya al-Qaysiyya, of Basra, Sufi ... account of the place of the women in Islam

Rabi'a of Basra has long been known to students of Sufism as a unique personality among the early Sufis. The material for this account of her life and teaching si derived fromm one or two short biographical notices and from scattered references found in Arab and Persian writings on Sufism and is the first biography of this early Muslim saint to appear which aims at being complete.