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Epistles of the Brethren of Purity. The Ikhwan al-Safa' and their Rasa'il: An Introduction by Nader El-Bizri (Hardcover, 2008)

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Ikhwan al-Safa' (The Brethren of Purity) were the anonymous adepts of a tenth-century esoteric fraternity of lettered urbanites that was principally based in Basra and Baghdad. This compendium contained.

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Ikhwan al-Safa' (The Brethren of Purity) were the adepts of a tenth-century fraternity based in Basra and Baghdad. This brotherhood occupied a prominent station in the intellectual history of Islam due to the wide reception of their encyclopaedia: Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa' (The Epistles of the Brethren of Purity). This compendium contained fifty-two treatises in mathematics, logic, natural philosophy, psychology, and metaphysics, in addition to didactic fables.This present volume gathers studies by leading philosophers, historians and scholars of Islamic Studies, who are also preparing the first Arabic critical editions and complete annotated English translations of the Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa', which will be published in the OUP Series that this volume initiates. The chapters explore the philosophical and scientific contents of the Rasa'il, its classification and canonization of knowledge, the authorship and dating of the corpus, and the intellectual influence it exercised in the history of ideas in Islam.