Rabia Balkhi

Her shrine is located in the mausoleum of the 15th-century Naqshbandi Sufi Khwaja Abu Nasr Parsa (died 1460) in the city of Balkh, now present-day Afghanistan.

[1] The 14th-century poet and anthologist Jajarmi states that Rabia wrote a Persian poem which used Arabic for the shahada and lahwalah, which according to the Iranologist Francois de Blois demonstrates her enthusiasm for bilingual tricks.

[6] Rabia appears in the Lubab ul-Albab, a compilation of Persian poets made by the 12th and 13th-century writer Awfi (died 1242).

"[1] Rabia is amongst the thirty-five female Sufis mentioned in the 15th-century Persian work Nafahat al-Uns, a biographical compilation made by Jami (died 1492).

[3] Dabashi notes that Rabia later became a "semi-legendary figure who putatively wrote her last poems with her blood on the prison walls of the jail in which she had been incarcerated because of her love for a slave named Bektash.

[9][10] Rabia's shrine is located in the mausoleum of the 15th-century Naqshbandi Sufi Khwaja Abu Nasr Parsa (died 1460) in the city of Balkh, now present-day Afghanistan.

The 1974 Afghan film Rabia of Balkh not only played a central role in the cinema of the country, but according to Krista Geneviéve Lynes "also in the figuration of a proto-feminist political agency, one that in many respects resembles the ethnical call for justice in Sophocles's Antigone.