Al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya
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The Meccan Revelations is the major work of the philosopher and Sufi Ibn Arabi, written between 1203 and 1240.
Opening pages of the Konya Manuscript of the Meccan Revelations, handwritten by Ibn Arabi.
The city of Mecca in 2011, a major place of pilgrimage for Muslims.
Rabia Basri
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Rābiʼa al-ʼAdawiyya al-Qaysiyya or Rabia Basri was a poet, one of the earliest Sufi mystics and an influential religious figure from Basra. Her full name is said to be Rābiʿa bint Ismāʿīl; her kunya w
Al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya
…into religious experience by a spiritual woman called Nizham, a young Persian woman whose name means "Harmony". He quotes the poems of the writer Rabia of Basra, who according to him is "the most prestigious interpreter" of love. Ibn Arabi also recounts his encounter and service to mystic Fatima bint al-Muthanna…
Depiction of Rabiʼa grinding grain from a Persian dictionary