Epistles Of The Brethren Of Purity The Ikhwan Al Safa And Their Rasa Il
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Epistles Of The Brethren Of Purity The Ikhwan Al Safa And Their Rasa Il
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Author : Nader El-Bizri
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008-12-04
Epistles Of The Brethren Of Purity The Ikhwan Al Safa And Their Rasa Il written by Nader El-Bizri and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-04 with History categories.
This is the introductory volume for a new critical edition of The Epistles of the Brethren of Purity, an encyclopaedic philosophical and scientific work of the 10th century produced by an esoteric fraternity based in Baghdad and Basra. Specially written essays explore its authorship and dating, its intellectual content and influence.
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Author : اخوان الصفاء
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010-10-28
written by اخوان الصفاء and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-28 with History categories.
Epistles 10-14 of the Brethren of Purity focus on the foundations of logic, offering a tenth-century interpretation of the classic Aristotelian texts by scholars in Islamic civilization. This is the first critical edition, presenting the original Arabic text with a fully annotated English translation.
Studies In Hindustanee
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Author : Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʼ
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1885
Studies In Hindustanee written by Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʼ and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1885 with Islamic philosophy categories.
Gulf In World History
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Author : Allen James Fromherz
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2018-08-31
Gulf In World History written by Allen James Fromherz and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-31 with History categories.
Provides a concise up-to-date introduction to and overview of black nationalism in American history
Muslim Neoplatonists
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Author : Ian Richard Netton
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-12-16
Muslim Neoplatonists written by Ian Richard Netton and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-16 with Philosophy categories.
The tenth or eleventh century group of the Brethren of Purity (Ikhwan al Safa) are as well known in the Arab world as Darwin, Marx and Freud in the west. Designed as an introduction to their ideas, this book concentrates on the Brethren's writings, analyzing the impact on them of thinkers such as Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle and the Neoplatonists. Ian Netton traces the influences of Judaism and Christianity, and controversially this book argues that the Brethren of Purity did not belong to the Ismaili branch of Islam as is generally believed.
Sciences Of The Soul And Intellect Part I
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Author : David Simonowitz
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2016-01-14
Sciences Of The Soul And Intellect Part I written by David Simonowitz and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-14 with categories.
The Ikhwan al-Safa (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 Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa (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 parts, it treats themes in mathematics, logic, natural philosophy, psychology, metaphysics, and theology, in addition to didactic fables. Epistles 32 to 36 comprise the first five treatises in the third division of the Rasa'il, on the sciences of the soul and intellect. Combining Islamic revelation with Hellenistic philosophy, the Ikhwan delineate herein their metaphysical system. Epistles 32 and 33 present adaptations of the Pythagorean doctrines, and of Neo-Platonist leitmotifs, whereby a numerical analogy is applied to the unique and transcendent God, or the One, from whom all existence emanates. Epistle 34 takes up the pervasive theme of the correspondence between microcosm and macrocosm, situating the human being as the central link between the celestial and terrestrial realms. In Epistle 35, we find an explanation of the intellectual faculties of the individual human soul, whose ultimate aim is ascension to the timeless reality of pure intellect. Finally, Epistle 36 presents itself as the astrological epistle par excellence of the Rasa'il; from the coming-to-be of worms, to the emergence of religions and empires, nothing in the sub-lunar sphere escapes the determining influence of the celestial cycles.
The Topkapi Scroll
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Author : Gülru Necipoğlu
language : en
Publisher: Getty Publications
Release Date : 1996-03-01
The Topkapi Scroll written by Gülru Necipoğlu and has been published by Getty Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-03-01 with Art categories.
Since precious few architectural drawings and no theoretical treatises on architecture remain from the premodern Islamic world, the Timurid pattern scroll in the collection of the Topkapi Palace Museum Library is an exceedingly rich and valuable source of information. In the course of her in-depth analysis of this scroll dating from the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century, Gülru Necipoğlu throws new light on the conceptualization, recording, and transmission of architectural design in the Islamic world between the tenth and sixteenth centuries. Her text has particularly far-reaching implications for recent discussions on vision, subjectivity, and the semiotics of abstract representation. She also compares the Islamic understanding of geometry with that found in medieval Western art, making this book particularly valuable for all historians and critics of architecture. The scroll, with its 114 individual geometric patterns for wall surfaces and vaulting, is reproduced entirely in color in this elegant, large-format volume. An extensive catalogue includes illustrations showing the underlying geometries (in the form of incised “dead” drawings) from which the individual patterns are generated. An essay by Mohammad al-Asad discusses the geometry of the muqarnas and demonstrates by means of CAD drawings how one of the scroll’s patterns could be used co design a three-dimensional vault.
Classical Arabic Stories
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Author : Salma Khadra Jayyusi
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2012
Classical Arabic Stories written by Salma Khadra Jayyusi and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Education categories.
Short fiction was an immensely innovative art in the medieval Arab world and speaks to the urbanization of the Arab domain after Islam. It reflects the bustling life of Muslim Arabs and Islamized Persians and the sure stamp of an urbanity that had settled very staunchly after big conquests. Reading these texts today illuminates the wide spectrum of early Arab life and the influences and innovations that flourished so vibrantly in medieval Arab society. Classical Arabic Stories selects from an impressive corpus, including excerpts from seven seminal works: Ibn Tufail's novel, Hayy ibn Yaqzan; Kalila wa Dimna by Ibn al-Muqaffa; The Misers by al-Jahiz; The Brethren of Purity's The Protest of Animals Against Man; Al-Maqamat (The Assemblies) by al-Hamadhani and al-Hariri; Epistle of Forgiveness by al-Ma'arri; and the epic romance, Sayf Bin Dhi Yazan. Organized thematically, the volume begins with pre-Islamic tales, stories of rulers and other notables, and thrilling narratives of danger and warfare. It follows with tales of love, religion, comedy, and the strange and the supernatural.
Colour Light And Wonder In Islamic Art
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Author : Idries Trevathan
language : en
Publisher: Saqi Books
Release Date : 2020-02-17
Colour Light And Wonder In Islamic Art written by Idries Trevathan and has been published by Saqi Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-17 with Art categories.
A unique investigation into the aesthetics of colour in Islamic art revealing its deeper symbolic and mystical meanings. The experience of colour in Islamic visual culture has historically been overlooked. In this new approach, Idries Trevathan examines the language of colour in Islamic art and architecture in dialogue with its aesthetic contexts, offering insights into the pre-modern Muslim experience of interpreting colour. The seventeenth-century Shah Mosque in Isfahan, Iran, represents one of the finest examples of colour-use on a grand scale. Here, Trevathan examines the philosophical and mystical traditions that formed the mosque's backdrop. He shows how careful combinations of colour and design proportions in Islamic patterns expresses knowledge beyond that experienced in the corporeal world, offering another language with which to know and experience God. Colour thus becomes a spiritual language, calling for a re-consideration of how we read Islamic aesthetics.
49 51
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Author : Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʼ
language : en
Publisher: Epistles of the Brethren of Pu
Release Date : 2019
49 51 written by Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʼ and has been published by Epistles of the Brethren of Pu this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Philosophy categories.
This volume presents three of the Epistles of the Brethren of Purity, a monumental work of medieval Islamic learning. Epistle 49 explores the hierarchy of existence; Epistle 50 describes the proper attitudes towards body and soul; Epistle 51 considers the arrangement of the world on numerical principles.