El Sakkakini, Widad. First among Sufis : the life and thought of Rabia al-Adawiyya, the woman Saint of Basra / Widad El Sakkakini ; translated by Nabil Safwat ; introduction by Doris Lessing. - London : Octagon Press, c1982. - 85 p. ; 23 cm. Translation of: ʻĀshiqah al-mutaṣawwifah. ISBN: 0900860456 Subjects--Personal Names: Rābiʻah al-ʻAdawīyah, Subjects--Topical Terms: Sufis--Biography.--Iraq--Baṣrah Subjects--Geographic Terms: Baṣrah (Iraq)--Biography. Dewey Class. No.: 922.97 / SAF 1982