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Rabia
(redirected from Rabi'a al-Adawiyya)

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Ra·bi  (rb) also Ra·bi·a (r-b)
n.
Either the third or the fourth month of the year in the Islamic calendar. See Table at calendar.

[Arabic rab', spring, fourth; see rb in Semitic roots.]

Ra·bi  (räb), Isidor Isaac 1898-1988.
Austrian-born American physicist. He won a 1944 Nobel Prize for his study of magnetic movement of atomic particles.

Rabia [rəˈbɪə]
n
(Non-Christian Religions / Islam) either the third or the fourth month of the Muslim year, known as Rabia I and Rabia II respectively; the Muslim spring

Rabia2, Rabiah [ˈrɑːbɪa]
n
(Biographies / Rabia (c. 713-801) F, Arab, RELIGION: saint, RELIGION: mystic, RELIGION: religious leader) full name Rabia al-Adawiyyah. c. 713-801 ad, Islamic saint, mystic, and religious leader; her teachings inspired the Sufi movement


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