Survey of sources; Part 1: 1. The place of women among the Sūfis; 2. Offers of marriage; 3. Asceticism of Rābi'a; 4. The miracles of Muslim saints; 5. Rābi'a's declining years; Part 2: 6. Estimate of Rābi'a's teaching by the Sūfi writers; 7. Repentance; 8. Hope and fear; 9. Poverty; 10. Love, including satisfaction, longing and intimacy; Part 3: 11. The position of woman in Muslim lands in pre-Islamic and early Islamic times; 12. The position of the woman saint; 13. Celibacy in Islām; 14. The communion of saints in Islām; 15. The cult of the saints in modern Islām; List of authors quoted; Index.

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