On Composition and the Arts: An Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of Epistles 6-8

by إخوان الصفا

The 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 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198816928
• ISBN13: 9780198816928
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"