# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rabia-of-basra
# Generated: 2026-09-02T00:28:34.204Z

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name: "Rabia of Basra"
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description: "An eighth-century woman from Basra who remade devotion into something closer to love than law — her poetry and mystical teachings bent Sufism toward longing, not just submission, and earned her a place among the tradition's earliest and most revered voices."
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birthDate: "710"
deathDate: "801"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Rābiʼa al-ʼAdawiyya al-Qaysiyya was born around 716 CE and spent her life in Basra. A freed slave of the Qays ibn ʿAdī tribe, she carried the nisba al-Qaysīyya and the kunya Umm ʿAmr. She became a poet and one of the first Sufi mystics, writing and teaching at a time when the movement was still taking shape. Her work helped establish a language of divine love that would echo through centuries of Islamic mysticism. She is counted among the three preeminent Qalandars — wandering ascetics who renounced the world. She died in 801 CE, leaving a legacy that outlasted empires.