Epistles of the Brethren of Purity: The Ikhwan Al-Safa' and Their Rasa'il: An Introduction by Nader El-Bizri, إخوان الصفا

Epistles of the Brethren of Purity: The Ikhwan Al-Safa' and Their Rasa'il: An Introduction

Nader El-Bizri, إخوان الصفا

304 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

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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 scienc...

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