Rabia

RABIA BY SUSU LAROCHE (EXCERPT)

Rabia by Susu Laroche - 18 mins - 16mm film and digital video. Rābiʼa al-ʼAdawiyya of Basra (d. 801) occupies a singular place within the history of early Islamic mysticism. An ascetic, teacher, and poet, she became the nucleus of a devotional tradition organised around an uncompromising proposition that God should...