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Publisher : OUP
ISBN 13 : 9780199580163
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Download or read book Epistles of the Brethren of Purity: The Case of the Animals versus Man Before the King of the Jinn written by and published by OUP. This book was released on 2010-03-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first critical edition of the best-known epistle of the Brethren of Purity (Ikhwan al-Safa), a tenth-century esoteric fraternity based in Basra and Baghdad. It features an ecological fable on man's exploitation of animals, preceded by a short exposition on zoology.