Love Without a Leash

The Radical Love of Rabia al-Adawiyya, Mystic of Basra

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Narin Hikma

Verlag:

Independently Published

Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P34970578

EAN: 9798183773286

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Nicht auf Lager

Zustellung: Mo, 31.08.2026

Versand: Kostenlos

CHF 32.–

Beschreibung

What would you love, if you were not afraid. You have bargained with love your whole life. Given it where it was safe. Held it back where the cost got too high. You called that wisdom, or self-protection, or simply the way the world works. And somewhere underneath, so far down you rarely look, you have wondered what would be left of you if you stopped bargaining. Twelve hundred years ago, a woman in Basra stopped. The tradition says Rabia al-Adawiyya was born into a poverty so complete there was no oil in the house on the night she arrived. That she was orphaned by famine, seized on a road, and sold, and spent some twenty years as another person's property. That when she was finally freed, in her thirties, with no husband, no family, no trade and no protector, she walked out into the desert alone and began the work that occupied the rest of her life: learning to love God for no reason at all. What is certain is where she ended up. She taught. Among her students was Sufyan al-Thawri, one of the great jurists of the age, who came to her for rulings on how to worship. She refused the Amir of Basra, in writing, when he offered her a hundred thousand dinars. And she said four lines about hell and paradise that people have been repeating for twelve hundred years. Love Without a Leash is a narrative biography of that life. It follows her from the unlit room where she was born to the small bare room where she died, through the years of slavery, the refusals, the night vigils, and the arguments she won by asking one quiet question. It is built from the documented record and from the accounts the tradition preserved, it is honest about which is which, and it tells her story the way you would tell it to someone you loved. In these pages you will:. See the difference between love that earns and love that simply gives, and recognize which one you have been practicing. Follow a woman who turned down a fortune, a governor, and every comfortable arrangement offered to her, and understand exactly what she was protecting. Meet a theology with no fear in it, in which God asks for your presence and nothing else. Learn what it costs, and what it frees, to give something everything you have with no promise of return. Arrive at the question she spent sixty years answering, and find that you have been carrying it too. This is a book for anyone who has ever loved something they could not justify, and kept loving it anyway. She owned a cracked jug and a brick she used for a pillow, and she died with nothing held back. Open the first page. The rest will find you.

Spezifikationen

Sprache

Englisch

Autor

Narin Hikma

Erscheinungsjahr

2026

Format

Buch (Softcover)

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