This is the first critical edition of Epistle 4 of the Brethren of Purity (Ikhwan al-Safa'), a tenth-century esoteric fraternity based in Basra and Baghdad. It offers a glimpse into medieval geographical and cosmological views in the Islamic world, and into the Ikhwans' understanding of science as a method to decipher the signs of God's creation.
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This is the first critical edition of Epistle 4 of the Brethren of Purity (Ikhwan al-Safa'), a tenth-century esoteric fraternity based in Basra and Baghdad. It offers a glimpse into medieval geographical and cosmological views in the Islamic world, and into the Ikhwans' understanding of science as a method to decipher the signs of God's creation.
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Edition:
2014, OUP in Association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies
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2014, OUP in Association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies
Add this copy of Epistles of the Brethren of Purity: on Geography: an to cart. $84.90, new condition, Sold by Revaluation Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Exeter, DEVON, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2014 by Oxford Univ Pr.
Edition:
2014, OUP in Association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies
