Author : Nader El-Bizri
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 29,75 MB
Release : 2008-12-04
Category : History
ISBN :
This is the introductory volume for a new critical edition of The Epistles of the Brethren of Purity, an encyclopedic 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.
Author : Ian Richard Netton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 22,28 MB
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1136853839
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.
Author : Matthew Kaufmann
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,14 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Animal rights
ISBN : 9781887752701
In this interfaith and multicultural fable, eloquent representatives of all members of the animal kingdom--from horses to bees--come before the respected Spirit King to complain of the dreadful treatment they have suffered at the hands of humankind. During the ensuing trial, where both humans and animals testify before the King, both sides argue their points ingeniously, deftly illustrating the validity of both sides of the ecology debate. The ancient antecedents of this tale are thought to have originated in India, with the first written version penned in Arabic sometime before the 10th century in what is now Iraq. Much later, this version of the story was translated into Hebrew in 14th century France and was popular in European Jewish communities into the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This exquisite English translation, illustrated with 12 original color illumination plates, is useful in introducing young and old alike to environmental and animal rights issues.
Author : Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 33,72 MB
Release : 1993-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1438414196
This is the only book to deal with classical Islamic cosmology as it was formulated by the Ikhwan al-S'afa al Biruni and Ibn Sina during the tenth and eleventh centuries. These figures influenced all the later centuries of Islamic history and in fact created the cosmological framework within which all later scientific activity in the Islamic world was carried out--the enduring image of the cosmos within which Muslims have lived during the past millennium. Nasr writes from within the Islamic tradition and demonstrates how, based on the teachings of the Quran and the Prophet, the figures treated in this work integrated elements drawn from various ancient schools of philosophy and the sciences. This book is unique in its treatment of classical Islamic cosmology as seen from within the Islamic world-view and provides a key for understanding of traditional Islamic thought.
Author : Fadlou Shehadi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 40,28 MB
Release : 1995-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9004247211
This surveys the philosophies of music of the most important thinkers in Islam between the 9th and the 15th centuries A.D. It covers topics ranging from the physics and aesthetics of sound, the nature of music, its place in the total scheme of things and in human life, the relation between music, astronomy, astrology and meteorology, the relation between music and human feelings character and behaviour, to the question of whether a good Muslim should be allowed to listen to music at all, and if so, to which type. The book traces the influence of Greek, in particular Pythagorean and Aristoxenian, thinking in Islam on this subject, and aims to provide a philosophically coherent statement of thinking of the Islamic writers concerned, a clarification of their central arguments, as well as a critical evaluation of their line of thought. The author introduces a wide range of material from manuscript sources, including much that has not been published before.
Author : Raija Mattila
Publisher : Springer
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 50,71 MB
Release : 2019-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 3658243880
While Human-Animal Studies is a rapidly growing field in modern history, studies on this topic that focus on the Ancient World are few. The present volume aims at closing this gap. It investigates the relation between humans, animals, gods, and things with a special focus on the structure of these categories. An improved understanding of the ancient categories themselves is a precondition for any investigation into the relation between them. The focus of the volume lies on the Ancient Near East, but it also provides studies on Ancient Greece, Asia Minor, Mesoamerica, the Far East, and Arabia.
Author : Mohammad Sharif Khan
Publisher : APH Publishing
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 48,70 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9788170246237
Author : Fārābī
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 20,21 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
This edition of this important early Arabic philosophiccal work is based on fresh examination of manuscripts hitherto unknown. The introduction and full analytical commentary deal with philosophical, historical, and linguistic aspects of the work.
Author : Syed Farid Alatas
Publisher : OUP India
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,74 MB
Release : 2013-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198090458
Ibn Khaldun was one of the most remarkable Muslim scholars of the pre-modern period. Part of the 'Makers of Islamic Civilization' series, this book introduces the reader to Ibn Khaldun's core ideas, focusing on his theory of the rise and decline of states.
Author : Godefroid de Callatay
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 19,56 MB
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1780741960
The Ikhwan Al- Safa' or Brethren of Purity were a highly secretive group of tenth-century Shi'ite thinkers, their identities remaining unclear even today. Renowned for creating the legendary Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa, an encyclopedia of philosophical sciences, they proposed a coherent intellectual system that sought to reconcile human reasoning with prophetic revelation. This fascinating survey provides a clear, objective and innovative introduction to the Brethren of Purity and their encyclopedic project, showing its critical place in the history of Arabic science, philosophy and literature.
