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Book Synopsis Epistles of the Brethren of Purity. The Ikhwan Al-Safa' and Their Rasa'il by : Nader El-Bizri
Download or read book Epistles of the Brethren of Purity. The Ikhwan Al-Safa' and Their Rasa'il written by Nader El-Bizri and published by . This book was released on 2008-12-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Ikhwan al-Safa' by : Godefroid de Callatay
Download or read book Ikhwan al-Safa' written by Godefroid de Callatay and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Muslim Neoplatonists by : Ian Richard Netton
Download or read book Muslim Neoplatonists written by Ian Richard Netton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Animals' Lawsuit Against Humanity by : Matthew Kaufmann
Download or read book The Animals' Lawsuit Against Humanity written by Matthew Kaufmann and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Studies in Hindustanee by : Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʼ
Download or read book Studies in Hindustanee written by Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʼ and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Animals and their Relation to Gods, Humans and Things in the Ancient World by : Raija Mattila
Download or read book Animals and their Relation to Gods, Humans and Things in the Ancient World written by Raija Mattila and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-03-11 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis An Introduction to Islamic Cosmological Doctrines by : Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Download or read book An Introduction to Islamic Cosmological Doctrines written by Seyyed Hossein Nasr and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1993-07-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis رسائل اخوان الصفاء و خلان الوفاء by : اخوان الصفاء
Download or read book رسائل اخوان الصفاء و خلان الوفاء written by اخوان الصفاء and published by . This book was released on 2010-10-28 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Islam, the State, and Political Authority by : A. Afsaruddin
Download or read book Islam, the State, and Political Authority written by A. Afsaruddin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-12-05 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The expert essays in this volume deal with critically important topics concerning Islam and politics in both the pre-modern and modern periods, such as the nature of government, the relationship between politics and theology, Shi'i conceptions of statecraft, notions of public duty, and the compatibility of Islam and democratic governance.
Book Synopsis Muslim Philosophy and Philosophers by : Mohammad Sharif Khan
Download or read book Muslim Philosophy and Philosophers written by Mohammad Sharif Khan and published by APH Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Religious Identities in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages by :
Download or read book Religious Identities in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of articles analyzes the formation of antique and early medieval religious identities and ideas in rabbinic Judaism, early Christianity, Islam, and Greco-Roman culture. The authors question the artificial disciplinary and conceptual boundaries between these traditions.
Book Synopsis Aesthetics in Arabic Thought by : José Miguel Puerta-Vilchez
Download or read book Aesthetics in Arabic Thought written by José Miguel Puerta-Vilchez and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-07-10 with total page 954 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Aesthetics in Arabic Thought from Pre-Islamic Arabia through al-Andalus José Miguel Puerta Vílchez analyzes the discourses about beauty, the arts, and sense perception that arose within classical Arab culture from pre-Islamic poetry and the Quran (sixth-seventh centuries CE) to the Alhambra palace in Granada (fourteenth century CE). He focuses on the contributions of such great thinkers as Ibn Ḥazm, Avempace, Ibn Ṭufayl, Averroes, Ibn ʿArabī, and Ibn Khaldūn in al-Andalus, and the Brethren of Purity, al-Tawḥīdī, al-Fārābī, Avicenna, Alhazen, and al-Ghazālī in the East. The work also explores literary criticism, calligraphy, music, belles-lettres (adab), and erotic literature, and highlights the contribution of Arab humanism to shaping the field of Aesthetics in the West.
Book Synopsis Mysticism and Philosophy in al-Andalus by : Michael Ebstein
Download or read book Mysticism and Philosophy in al-Andalus written by Michael Ebstein and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Muslim Spain gave rise to two unusual figures in the mystical tradition of Islam: Ibn Masarra (269/883-319/931) and Ibn al-ʿArabī (560/1165-638/1240). Representing, respectively, the beginning and the pinnacle of Islamic mysticism in al-Andalus, Ibn Masarra and Ibn al-ʿArabī embody in their writings a type of mystical discourse which is quite different from the Sufi discourse that evolved in the Islamic east during the 9th-12th centuries. In Mysticism and Philosophy in al-Andalus, Michael Ebstein points to the Ismāʿīlī tradition as one possible source which helped shape the distinct intellectual world from which both Ibn Masarra and Ibn al-ʿArabī derived. By analyzing their writings and the works of various Ismāʿīlī authors, Michael Ebstein unearths the many links that connect the thought of Ibn Masarra and Ibn al-ʿArabī to the Ismāʿīlī tradition.
Book Synopsis The Qarmatians, from Concept to State by : Mai Mohammed Al Khalifa
Download or read book The Qarmatians, from Concept to State written by Mai Mohammed Al Khalifa and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2019-12-30 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Qarmatians From Concept to State, author Mai Mohammed Al Khalifa provides a fascinating reinvestigation of 7th-10th century Islamic and Middle East history in Arabia, Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Bahrain. Up until recent times, Bahrainis referred to their madhab (religious school) and self-identified as 'Abu Sa'idis' in reference to Abu Sa'id al-Jannabi (d. 913 CE), founder of the independent Qarmatian state in Bahrain. Based on the principle of al-ulfahâ'brotherly love' and camaraderie, that polity, which persisted for a century-and-a-half (ca., 899-1078 CE), provided the world with a unique political and socio-economic model of Islam. Most frequently remembered for their bands of fast-roving horsemen committed to a Spartan, desert code and Abu Tahir al-Jannabi's (d. 944 CE) infamous seizure of the hajar al-aswad ('black stone') from the ka'bah in Mecca, the Qarmatians merit serious academic consideration for the fact that the viable states and forms of equitable human society evolved under Hamdan Qarmat in al-Kufah and Abu Sa'id al-Jannabi in Bahrain remain unique in the annals of history. Their mode of living presaged vital concerns of our era including: socialization of wealth and means of production; gender-equality; group-/ collective decision making (under the Islamic democratic principle of shura); and abolition of private property, in a system of social status and merit according to ethical conduct and service to community. Meticulously detailed research and a vivid history covering the rise of forms of state in Iraq, Yemen and Bahrain lay open to question common assumptions about 'Islam' and Islamic historiography. A uniquely Ba?raini perspective raises provocative possibilities that the political and socio-economic model of the Qarmatians might have been closer than anything under the Umayyads or 'Abbasids to the original Islam and initial dar al-hijrah ('house of emigration') of the first Muslim community established by the Prophet Muhammad in Medina (Yathrib), ca. 622-632 CE. At conceptual and philosophical levels, early Isma?ili-Qarma?ian doctrine and derivative projects of state are, arguably, the best expressions 'on the ground' of the principles of the Risa?il of the Ikhwan al-Safa' (The Treatises of the 'Brethren of Purity'), which summarized the known scientific, mathematical, philosophical and religious knowledge of the ancient world as collected, emended and translated under the Bayt al-Hikmah ('House of Wisdom'). At the level of credo, the Qarmatians may have drawn inspiration from the greatest Sufi of all time, al-Husayn bin Mansur al-Hallaj (d. 922 CE). In the integration of science, philosophy and religion with parameters for equitable and egalitarian human coexistence the Qarmatians merit renewed attention as the society they evolved may have indeed reflected the legal intents (maqasid al-shari'ah) of Islamic law in a highly progressive form, unprecedented up until today. This book makes meaningful contribution to the field in its depth of analysis and reliance on previously overlooked Bahraini sources. The author's dispassionate and unbiased approach cracks the façade of dubious historiographical suppositions and accretions and sheds new light in a highly politicized domain where politics and dynastic intrigue have frequently been confounded with Islam. Readers are poised to revisit, witness and ponder a new reading of the history of the Qarmatians and the formative period of Islam itself with an open mind.Author Mai Mohammed Al Khalifa, historian and founder of the Shaikh Ebrahim bin Mohammed Al-Khalifa Center for Culture and Research, is the Chairperson of the Board of the Arab Regional Centre for World Heritage and the Minister of Culture of Bahrain.Translated by Abdullah Richard Lux, professor of Arabic, former Director of Translation at the Centre for Arab Unity Studies (CAUS) in Beirut and previous Executive Editor of Contemporary Arab Affairs (Routledge, UK).
Book Synopsis The Tao of Islam by : Sachiko Murata
Download or read book The Tao of Islam written by Sachiko Murata and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1992-03-23 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tao of Islam is a rich and diverse anthology of Islamic teachings on the nature of the relationships between God and the world, the world and the human being, and the human being and God. Focusing on gender symbolism, Sachiko Murata shows that Muslim authors frequently analyze the divine reality and its connections with the cosmic and human domains with a view toward a complementarity or polarity of principles that is analogous to the Chinese idea of yin/yang. Murata believes that the unity of Islamic thought is found, not so much in the ideas discussed, as in the types of relationships that are set up among realities. She pays particular attention to the views of various figures commonly known as "Sufis" and "philosophers," since they approach these topics with a flexibility and subtlety not found in other schools of thought. She translates several hundred pages, most for the first time, from more than thirty important Muslims including the Ikhwan al-Safa', Avicenna, and Ibn al-'Arabi.
Book Synopsis مبادئ آراء أهل المدينة الفاضلة by : Fārābī
Download or read book مبادئ آراء أهل المدينة الفاضلة written by Fārābī and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1985 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Rasa'il Ikhwan Al Safa by : Omar Farrukh
Download or read book Rasa'il Ikhwan Al Safa written by Omar Farrukh and published by . This book was released on 2013-03-22 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ikhwan al Safa in their encyclopedic work covers too many aspects of knowledge. This well researched book, by Omar Farrukh, (1906-1987)the Arab Lebanese scholar and historian, covers nine issues: Classification of the Sciences, Theory of Knowledge; Metaphysics; Nature and the Sciences; Psychology; Politics; Ethics; Education and Religion.Rasa'il Ikhwan al Safa is an intellectual work for a rational group found in early Islam. The letters are an example of thinkers work toward universalism rather than Islamism. This book was selected as part of Ihyaa al Turath al Arabi fil Mahjar; (Revival of Arab Heritage in Diaspora) project to disseminate knowledge among new Arab generations in Diaspora. The project was sponsored by the Arab American Encyclopedia-AAE,. Both projects are originally initiated and supported materially and spiritually by the Arab Palestinian scholar, writer, and scientist, professor Hasan Yahya, the publisher of this work. The managing editor and publisher is a well known Arab American scholar, scientist and writer. He authored more than 200 books .Dr. Yahya resides in Michigan-USA, and has four children and ten grandchildren.
