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    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...
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    The Brethren of Purity (Arabic: إخوان‌ الصفا, romanized: Ikhwān Al-Ṣafā; also The Brethren of Sincerity) were a secret society of Muslim philosophers...
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  • The following is a list of the rasa'il (epistles) which compose the influential Neoplatonic encyclopedia, the Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity composed...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • Muhammad al-Taqi (category Family of Muhammad)
    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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    alphabet. Around year 960, the Brethren of Purity of Basra were engaged in their Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity. Additional notable works include...
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  • were put to death, and when the records ˹of deeds˺ are laid open, and when the sky is stripped away, and when the Hellfire is fiercely flared up, and when...
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  • 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...
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    Janina Safran (2003), Rules of purity and confessional boundaries: Maliki debates about the pollution of the Christian, History of religions, Vol. 42 No. 3...
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    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...
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  • The Perfumed Garden of Sensual Delight (Arabic: الروض العاطر في نزهة الخاطر Al-rawḍ al-ʿāṭir fī nuzhaẗ al-ḫāṭir) is a fifteenth-century Arabic sex manual...
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  • and dark, in a fashion similar to the fall of the Tenth Intellect. Al-Farabi Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity Al-Mu'ayyad fi'l-Din al-Shirazi Al-Qadi...
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    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...
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  • Shia Islam (redirect from Etymology of Shia)
    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...
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    "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...
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    The Church of the Brethren is an Anabaptist Christian denomination in the Schwarzenau Brethren tradition (German: Schwarzenauer Neutäufer "Schwarzenau...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • The Encyclopedia of Pleasure or Jawāmiʿ al-Ladhdhah (Arabic: جوامع اللّذّة) is the earliest existent Arabic erotic work, written in the 10th century by...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    Edward E. (2010). Encyclopedia of Muslim-American History. Infobase Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4381-3040-8. "Inauguration Mahdavia Dairah of North America",...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    Isma'ilism (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    as shown in the chart below. Banu Yam Böszörmény Brethren of Purity Fatimid Caliphate Ghulat Hosay Khoja List of extinct Shia sects List of Ismaili castles...
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    ISBN 978-0-86356-673-8. Jonathan M. Bloom; Sheila Blair (2009). The Grove encyclopedia of Islamic art and architecture. Oxford University Press. pp. 101...
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    ISMAIL (158-197/775-813) Encyclopedia Iranica, DAWR (1) Öz, Mustafa, Mezhepler Tarihi ve Terimleri Sözlüğü (The History of madh'habs and its terminology...
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