At a glance
- Roles
- mystic
- Era
- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Place in the story
Sunni (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Summary
Kurdawiyya bint Amr al-Basriyya is among the women ascetics of Basra in Sifat al-Safwa (no. 608); Abu Abd al-Rahman Muhammad ibn al-Husayn records that she served Sha'wana. 1
The blessing of service
She was asked what blessing she had gained from serving Sha'wana, and said: "I have not loved the world since I served her, nor worried about my provision, nor has any of the world's great grown large in my eyes out of hope of gain from him, and I have never looked down on any Muslim." 1
For young visitors
Kurdawiyya served a devout woman named Sha'wana and learned from her not to love the world too much and never to look down on anyone.
Connections
People and things also explored
Ufayra the Devout· Ajrada al-Ammiyya· Amat al-Jalil bint Amr al-Adawiyya· Amra, wife of Habib al-Ajami· Bahriyya al-Abida· Burda al-Sarimiyya· Habiba al-Adawiyya· Hafsa bint Sirin
Sources
- Sifat al-Safwa — Ibn al-Jawzi (ed. Khalid Mustafa Tartusi, Dar al-Kitab al-Arabi, Beirut 1433/2012) , p.716
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Kurdawiyya bint Amr al-Basriyya”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/kurdawiyya-bint-amr/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-04.
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