Rabi’a al-adawiyya, mystic and poet

Rabia is considered as the greatest saint of the Sunnite world. There are many Muslim saints but Rabia is certainly the only one to have an ardor so important nowadays, it is still the object of veneration in Sufi communities and for simple believers who continue to pray her... and sometimes who see their wishes fulfilled. Yet from Rabia's life, we have no tracks of her words, her poems were transmitted to us by Sufis long after she died. 'Attâr, her official biograph, lived four centuries after her. Ibn'Arabî and El Ghazâli called her "the crown of men".