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‘The introduction of the element of love, which changed asceticism into mysticism, is ascribed to Rābi’ah al-’Adawīyah (died 801[ce]), a woman from Basra, who first formulated the Sūfī ideal of a love of God that *|was disinterested, without hope for paradise and without fear of hell.|* In the decades after Rābi’ah, **|mystical trends grew everywhere in the Islamic world, partly through an exchange of ideas with Christian hermits.’|**

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*** – ibid. [Encyclopaedia Britannica 22:] 19

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