The Ikhwan Al-Safa and Their Rasa'il: An Introduction

by إخوان الصفا

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 brotherhood occupied a prominent station in the history of science and philosophy in Islam due to the wide reception and assimilation of their monumental encyclopaedia: Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa' (The Epistles of the Brethren of Purity). This compendium contained fifty-two...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199557241
• ISBN13: 9780199557240
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.3"