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Biography Rabia al Basri
- Time Period717 - 801
- Place
- CountryIraq
Poet Biography
Not much is known about Rabia al Basri, except that she lived in Basra in Iraq, in the second half of the 8th century AD.She was born into poverty. But many spiritual stories are associated with her and what we can glean about her is reality merged with legend. These traditions come from Farid ud din Attar a later sufi saint and poet, who used earlier sources.
Rabia herself though has not left any written works. After her father's death, there was a famine in Basra, and during that she was parted from her family.
Written from the ninth to the twentieth century, these poems represent the peak of Islamic Mystical writing, from Rabia Basri to Mian Mohammad Baksh.
It is not clear how she was traveling in a caravan that was set upon by robbers. She was taken by the robbers and sold into slavery. Her master worked her very hard, but at night after finishing her chores Rabia would turn to meditation and prayers and praising the Lord.
Foregoing rest and sleep she spent her nights in prayers and she often fasted during the da