Philosophy
Rabi’a of Balkh, the first voice
The first woman known to write poetry in the Farsi tongue — and what her brief, blazing life still asks of us.
Rabi’a Balkhi wrote in Farsi when the language itself was young. She is, by most accounts, the first woman to do so — and her verse still burns.
Her life was brief and her end was cruel, but the couplets endure, and they ask us to remember that the canon was never only men.
