Rabi'a From Narrative to Myth (eBook)

The Many Faces of Islam's Most Famous Woman Saint, Rabi'a al-'Adawiyya

Rkia Elaroui Cornell (Autor)

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2019
416 Seiten
Oneworld Publications (Verlag)
978-1-78607-522-2 (ISBN)

Infos

A groundbreaking study of how the Muslim woman saint Rabi‘a al-‘Adawiyya has been portrayed in Sufi, Islamic and secular literature from medieval to modern times

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Rabi';a al-';Adawiyya is a figure shrouded in myth. Certainly a woman by this name was born in Basra, Iraq, in the eighth century, but her life remains recorded only in legends, stories, poems and hagiographies. The various depictions of her as a deeply spiritual ascetic, an existentialist rebel and a romantic lover seem impossible to reconcile, and yet Rabi';a has transcended these narratives to become a global symbol of both Sufi and modern secular culture. In this groundbreaking study, Rkia Elaroui Cornell traces the development of these diverse narratives and provides a history of the iconic Rabi';a's construction as a Sufi saint. Combining medieval and modern sources, including evidence never before examined, in novel ways, Rabi';a From Narrative to Myth is the most significant work to emerge on this quintessential figure in Islam for more than seventy years.

Autor

Rkia Elaroui Cornell is Professor of Pedagogy and Coordinator of the Arabic program at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. She has given numerous lectures and conference presentations on the subjects of Qur’anic exegesis, women in Islam, and language pedagogy.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.1.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• ISBN-10: 1-78607-522-9 / 1786075229
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78607-522-2 / 9781786075222