The Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity (Arabic: رسائل إخوان الصفا, Rasā'il Ikhwān al-ṣafā') also variously known as the Epistles of the Brethren of...

The Brethren of Purity (Arabic: إخوان‌ الصفا, romanized: Ikhwān Al-Ṣafā; also The Brethren of Sincerity) were a secret society of Muslim philosophers...

The following is a list of the rasa'il (epistles) which compose the influential Neoplatonic encyclopedia, the Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity composed...

22 in the Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity. The longest Encyclopedia entry, The Case of the Animals versus Man revolves around a group of talking...

the 10th century, the Brethren of Purity published the Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity, in which a heliocentric view of the universe is expressed...

called the Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity (Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-ṣafā). He died in 840 in Salamiyah and was succeeded by his son al-Husayn. With the death...

the thought of the Brethren of Purity (Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʼ). London [u.a.]: RoutledgeCurzon. p. 93. ISBN 978-0-7007-1466-7. The Jataka or stories of the Buddha's...

epistolary style in the Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity. The Brethren of Purity and the Sufis were united in many points of doctrine. They both...

were engaged in their Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity, which may be a unique example of a classical Arabic encyclopedia written by a group rather...

considers that the text must date to after the Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity and before the work of Ibn Juljul in the late 10th century. The section...

implicit in Arabic poetry. The 10th century Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity features a fictional anecdote of a "prince who strays from his palace during...

alphabet. Around year 960, the Brethren of Purity of Basra were engaged in their Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity. Additional notable works include...

"Judar and His Brethren", departs from the happy endings of previous variants and reworks the plot to give it a tragic ending instead, with the younger brother...

Miskawayh's Al-Fawz al-Kabir (الفوز الأكبر), and the Brethren of Purity's Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity (رسائل إخوان الصفا‎) developed ideas about...

Janina Safran (2003), Rules of purity and confessional boundaries: Maliki debates about the pollution of the Christian, History of religions, Vol. 42 No. 3...

appear in an encyclopedia from Baghdad c. 983, the Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity (Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa). By the end of 12th century, the general...

ISBN 978-1-906497-51-4. Wikisource has the text of the 1905 New International Encyclopedia article "Shiites". Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica...

time. In the 10th century, the Brethren of Purity published the Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity, in which a heliocentric view of the universe is...

Edward E. (2010). Encyclopedia of Muslim-American History. Infobase Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4381-3040-8. "Inauguration Mahdavia Dairah of North America",...

The Church of the Brethren is an Anabaptist Christian denomination in the Schwarzenau Brethren tradition (German: Schwarzenauer Neutäufer "Schwarzenau...

The Perfumed Garden of Sensual Delight (Arabic: الروض العاطر في نزهة الخاطر Al-rawḍ al-ʿāṭir fī nuzhaẗ al-ḫāṭir), also known as the Arabic Kama Sutra...

"Al-Shafi'iyya". The Encyclopedia Of Islam. Vol. IX. Brill. pp. 185–86. Istislah The Oxford Dictionary of Islam, Oxford University Press Istihsan The Oxford Dictionary...

whether before [the revelation of the final message of] Islam or after. The message has to have reached them in its pristine purity, without any distortions...

The New Encyclopedia of Islam. Walnut Creek CA: AltaMira Press p. 369 Akbar, Faiza. "The secular roots of religious dissidence in early Islam: the case...

The hadith attributed to Muhammad and known as the hadith of 73 sects states that there will be 73 different sects and groups within Islam, and that only...

however, the language of the nomadic Arabs came to be regarded as preserving the highest purity by the grammarians following Abi Ishaq, and the term كلام...

The roc is an enormous legendary bird of prey in the popular mythology of the Middle East. The roc appears in Arab geographies and natural history, popularized...

Sefer HaHibbur, "The Book of Compilation." He often followed the method of the anonymously-authored "Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity'" (Arabic: رسائل...

in the caliph's palace. The creed of al-Ghazālī (d. 1111) in his second book of his religious encyclopedia Iḥyāʾ ʿulūm ad-dīn. It is headed "The Sunni...

Albin Michel. ISBN 978-2-226-29040-3. Esposito, John (1995). The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195148039....