Epistles of the Brethren of Purity
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Epistles of the Brethren of Purity
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The Ikhwan al-Safa (Brethren of Purity), the anonymous adepts of a tenth-century esoteric fraternity based in Basra and Baghdad, hold an eminent position in the history of science and philosophy in Islam due to the wide reception and assimilation of their monumental encyclopaedia, the Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa' (Epistles of the Brethren of Purity). This compendium contains fifty-two epistles offering synoptic accounts of the classical sciences and philosophies of the age; divided into four classificatory parts, it treats themes in mathematics, logic, natural philosophy, psychology, metaphysics, and theology, in addition to didactic fables. The Rasa'il constitutes a paradigmatic legacy in the canonization of philosophy and the sciences in mediaeval Islamic civilization, as well as having shown
a permeating influence in Western culture.
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Editorial Board
General Editor Nader El-Bizri, The Institute of Ismaili Studies
Hermann Landolt, McGill University and the Institute of Ismaili Studies
Wilferd Madelung, University of Oxford and the Institute of Ismaili Studies
Ismail K. Poonawala, University of California, Los Angeles
Advisory Board
Carmela Baffioni, Università degli Studi di Napoli 'L'Orientale'
Patricia Crone, Princeton University
Farhad Daftary, The Institute of Ismaili Studies
Godefroid de Callataÿ, Université catholique de Louvain
Lenn E. Goodman, Vanderbilt University
Abbas Hamdani, University of Wisconsin
Yves Marquet, Sorbonne
Yahya Michot, Hartford Seminary
James Montgomery, University of Cambridge
Azim Nanji, Stanford University
Ian Richard Netton, University of Exeter
Roshdi Rashed, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris
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Showing 1 - 7 of 7 results
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An Introduction
Nader El-Bizri
978-0-19-955724-0
Hardback
04 December 2008
£52.50
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An Arabic critical edition and English translation of Epistle 22
Lenn E. Goodman, Richard McGregor
978-0-19-958016-3
Hardback
18 March 2010
£85.00
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An Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of Epistles 1-2
Nader El-Bizri
978-0-19-965560-1
Hardback
07 February 2013
£50.00
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An Arabic critical edition and English translation of Epistles 10-14
Carmela Baffioni
978-0-19-958652-3
Hardback
28 October 2010
£52.50
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An Arabic critical edition and English translation of Epistle 52, Part 1
Godefroid de Callataÿ, Bruno Halflants
978-0-19-963895-6
Hardback
24 November 2011
£52.50
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An Arabic critical edition and English translation of Epistle 5
Owen Wright
978-0-19-959398-9
Hardback
13 January 2011
£52.50
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An Arabic critical edition and English translation of Epistles 15-21
Carmela Baffioni
978-0-19-968380-2
Hardback
September 2013 (estimated)
£65.00
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