Ikhwan Al Safa

Author : Nader El-Bizri
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Epistles of the Brethren of Purity. The Ikhwan Al-Safa' and Their Rasa'il written by Nader El-Bizri and published by . This book was released on 2008-12-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the introductory volume for a new critical edition of The Epistles of the Brethren of Purity, an encyclopaedic philosophical and scientific work of the 10th century produced by an esoteric fraternity based in Baghdad and Basra. Specially written essays explore its authorship and dating, its intellectual content and influence.

Author : Godefroid de Callatay
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1780741960
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ikhwan al-Safa' written by Godefroid de Callatay and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ikhwan Al- Safa' or Brethren of Purity were a highly secretive group of tenth-century Shi'ite thinkers, their identities remaining unclear even today. Renowned for creating the legendary Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa, an encyclopedia of philosophical sciences, they proposed a coherent intellectual system that sought to reconcile human reasoning with prophetic revelation. This fascinating survey provides a clear, objective and innovative introduction to the Brethren of Purity and their encyclopedic project, showing its critical place in the history of Arabic science, philosophy and literature.

Author : Ian Richard Netton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136853901
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Muslim Neoplatonists written by Ian Richard Netton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tenth or eleventh century group of the Brethren of Purity (Ikhwan al Safa) are as well known in the Arab world as Darwin, Marx and Freud in the west. Designed as an introduction to their ideas, this book concentrates on the Brethren's writings, analyzing the impact on them of thinkers such as Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle and the Neoplatonists. Ian Netton traces the influences of Judaism and Christianity, and controversially this book argues that the Brethren of Purity did not belong to the Ismaili branch of Islam as is generally believed.

Author : Matthew Kaufmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781887752701
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Animals' Lawsuit Against Humanity written by Matthew Kaufmann and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this interfaith and multicultural fable, eloquent representatives of all members of the animal kingdom--from horses to bees--come before the respected Spirit King to complain of the dreadful treatment they have suffered at the hands of humankind. During the ensuing trial, where both humans and animals testify before the King, both sides argue their points ingeniously, deftly illustrating the validity of both sides of the ecology debate. The ancient antecedents of this tale are thought to have originated in India, with the first written version penned in Arabic sometime before the 10th century in what is now Iraq. Much later, this version of the story was translated into Hebrew in 14th century France and was popular in European Jewish communities into the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This exquisite English translation, illustrated with 12 original color illumination plates, is useful in introducing young and old alike to environmental and animal rights issues.

Author : Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʼ
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Studies in Hindustanee written by Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʼ and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Raija Mattila
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3658243880
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animals and their Relation to Gods, Humans and Things in the Ancient World written by Raija Mattila and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-03-11 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Human-Animal Studies is a rapidly growing field in modern history, studies on this topic that focus on the Ancient World are few. The present volume aims at closing this gap. It investigates the relation between humans, animals, gods, and things with a special focus on the structure of these categories. An improved understanding of the ancient categories themselves is a precondition for any investigation into the relation between them. The focus of the volume lies on the Ancient Near East, but it also provides studies on Ancient Greece, Asia Minor, Mesoamerica, the Far East, and Arabia.

Author : Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438414196
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Islamic Cosmological Doctrines written by Seyyed Hossein Nasr and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1993-07-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the only book to deal with classical Islamic cosmology as it was formulated by the Ikhwan al-S'afa al Biruni and Ibn Sina during the tenth and eleventh centuries. These figures influenced all the later centuries of Islamic history and in fact created the cosmological framework within which all later scientific activity in the Islamic world was carried out--the enduring image of the cosmos within which Muslims have lived during the past millennium. Nasr writes from within the Islamic tradition and demonstrates how, based on the teachings of the Quran and the Prophet, the figures treated in this work integrated elements drawn from various ancient schools of philosophy and the sciences. This book is unique in its treatment of classical Islamic cosmology as seen from within the Islamic world-view and provides a key for understanding of traditional Islamic thought.

Author : A. Afsaruddin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137002026
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islam, the State, and Political Authority written by A. Afsaruddin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-12-05 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The expert essays in this volume deal with critically important topics concerning Islam and politics in both the pre-modern and modern periods, such as the nature of government, the relationship between politics and theology, Shi'i conceptions of statecraft, notions of public duty, and the compatibility of Islam and democratic governance.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004471162
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religious Identities in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of articles analyzes the formation of antique and early medieval religious identities and ideas in rabbinic Judaism, early Christianity, Islam, and Greco-Roman culture. The authors question the artificial disciplinary and conceptual boundaries between these traditions.

Author : اخوان الصفاء
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book رسائل اخوان الصفاء و خلان الوفاء written by اخوان الصفاء and published by . This book was released on 2010-10-28 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Epistles 10-14 of the Brethren of Purity focus on the foundations of logic, offering a tenth-century interpretation of the classic Aristotelian texts by scholars in Islamic civilization. This is the first critical edition, presenting the original Arabic text with a fully annotated English translation.