Rabi'a al-Adawiyya is a classic film from 1963 based on the life of the early Sufi saint and poet Rabi'a al-Adawiyya, also known as Rabi'a al Basri, in the second Islamic century.

This Rabia is also called Rabia al-Adawiyya after her father’s Arabic clan or tribe name. According to folklore, Rabia’s first calamity was her father died young. Soon after that, there was a ...