On Composition and the Arts: An Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of Epistles 6-8

by إخوان الصفا

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The 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 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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0198816928

ISBN13:9780198816928

Release Date:April 2018

Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA

Length:326 Pages

Weight:1.65 lbs.

Dimensions:1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"

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