The Brethren of Purity (Arabic: إخوان الصفا, romanized: Ikhwān Al-Ṣafā; also The Brethren of Sincerity) were a secret society of Muslim philosophers...
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Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity (Arabic: رسائل إخوان الصفا, Rasā'il Ikhwān al-ṣafā') also variously known as the Epistles of the Brethren of Sincerity...
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of the rasa'il (epistles) which compose the influential Neoplatonic encyclopedia, the Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity composed by the Brethren...
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Microcosm–macrocosm analogy (category Metaphysics of religion)
analogy were the Epistles of the Brethren of Purity, an encyclopedic work written in the 10th century by an anonymous group of Shi'i Muslim philosophers...
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Islamic philosophy (redirect from Arabian School of Philosophy)
production of flowers and fruit. Ibn Miskawayh's al-Fawz al-Asghar and the Brethren of Purity's Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity (The Epistles of Ikhwan...
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in English as The Case of the Animals versus Man Before the King of the Jinn, is an epistle written by the Brethren of Purity (Ikhwān al-Ṣafā) in the...
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epistolary style in the Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity. The Brethren of Purity and the Sufis were united in many points of doctrine. They both were mystical...
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United Brethren, a Mormon fundamentalist group The Brethren (Jim Roberts group), an apocalyptic Jesus people movement from the 1970s Brethren of Purity, a...
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Shia Islam (redirect from Etymology of Shia)
Shia Islam (/ˈʃiːə/) or Shi'a Islam is the second-largest branch of Islam. It holds that the Islamic prophet Muhammad designated Ali ibn Abi Talib (656–661...
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Muhammad al-Taqi (category Family of Muhammad)
'lord of the epistles'), al-Taqi is said to have prepared with his followers an encyclopedic text called the Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity (Rasāʾil...
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