TY - JOUR TT - Comparison of Mystical Views of Râbi‘Ah Al-Basrî with Teresa of Avila AU - Yılmaz, Ömer PY - 2013 DA - June JF - Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi JO - CUIFD PB - Sivas Cumhuriyet University WT - DergiPark SN - 1301-1197 SP - 5 EP - 31 VL - 17 IS - 1 KW - Tasavvuf KW - Mistisizm KW - Sevgi KW - Kadın KW - Zühd N2 - Rābiʿah al-ʻAdawiyya lived in Basra as a Muslim sufi whereas Teresaof Avila lived in the west as a Christian mystic. They bothbrought some perspectives in mystical culture of which the priorityis spiritual life. The love of God, ascetic life and being indifferentto the world were the most important of them all. Undoubtedly,there were matched and different views in their systematicthought which they constituted in the line of their religions. Howeverthey both believed consequently in the necessity of beingwith God and to endeavor to reach this purpose. Both Rābiʿah andTeresa have been admitted as model figures and their mysticthought have been followed by their coreligionists for centuries.They both preferred living as virgin and always gained acceptanceas saint in their age. Though Rābiʿah gave importance to the practicesof the discipline, Teresa came out with her theoretical opinions. CR - Aclûni, İsmail b. Muhammed, Keşfu’l-hafâ, Daru ihyai turasi’l-Arabiyye, c. CR - I-II, Beyrut 1933. CR - Afifi, Ebu’l-A’lâ el-,Tasavvuf ,İslamda Manevi Hayat, terc. E. Demirli, A. CR - Kartal, İz Yayıncılık, İstanbul 1996. CR - Araz, Nezihe, Anadolu Evliyaları, Atlas Yayınları, İstanbul 1966. CR - Ateş, Süleyman, İslam Tasavvufu, Yeni Ufuklar Yayınları, İstanbul 1992. CR - Attâr, Feridüdin, Tezkiratü’l- evliya, trc. M. Vestani, tah. M. Cadir, Daru’lMektebi, CR - Şam 2009. UR - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/cuifd/issue//254907 L1 - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/221154 ER -