Brethren of Purity

Arabic manuscript illumination from the twelfth century CE showing the Brethren of Purity. The Brethren of Purity ( Arabic : اخوان الصفا ; transliteration : Ikhwan al-Safa ; also in English : The Brethren of Sincerity ) were a secret society of Muslim philosophers in Basra , Iraq , in the 10th century CE , when Basra was the seat of the Abbasid Caliphate . The structure of this mysterious organization and the identities of its members have never been clear. Their esoteric teachings and philosophy are expounded in an epistolary style in the Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity (Arabic: Rasa'il Ikhwan al-safa' ), a giant compendium of 52 epistles that would greatly influence later encyclopedias. A good deal of Muslim and Western scholarship has been spent on just pinning down the identities of the Brethren and the century in which they were active. They are generally considered a secret society because of their closed & private meetings every 12 days, as mentioned in the Rasa'il .

Arabic manuscript illumination from the 12th century CE showing the Brethren of Purity.maqamat al hariri The Brethren of Purity ( ikhwãn al-safã ; also The Brethren of Sincerity ) were a secret society of Muslim philosophers in Basra , Iraq , in the 8th century CE. The structure of this mysterious organization and the identities of its members have never been clear. Their esoteric teachings and philosophy are expounded in an epistolary style in the Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity ( Rasa'il Ikhwan al-safa' ), a giant compendium of 52 epistles that would greatly influence later encyclopedias. A good deal of Muslim and Western scholarship has been spent on just pinning down the identities of the Brethren and the century in which they were active. They are generally considered a secret society because of their closed & private meetings every 12 days, as mentioned in the Rasa'il .

Arabic manuscript illumination from the 12th century CE showing the Brethren of Purity. The Brethren of Purity ( ; also The Brethren of Sincerity ) were a secret society of Muslim philosophers in Basra , Iraq , in the 8th or 10th century CE. The structure of this mysterious organization and the identities of its members have never been clear. Their esoteric teachings and philosophy are expounded in an epistolary style in the Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity ( Rasa'il Ikhwan al-safa' ), a giant compendium of 52 epistles that would greatly influence later encyclopedias. A good deal of Muslim and Western scholarship has been spent on just pinning down the identities of the Brethren and the century in which they were active. They are generally considered a secret society because of their closed and private meetings every 12 days, as mentioned in the Rasa'il . (1960), "On the Ethics of the Brethren of Purity", The Muslim World , 50: 109–121.

Medieval secret society of Muslim philosophers This article is about a group of Iraqi polymaths. Double-leaf frontispiece from the " Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity ". Süleymaniye Library The Brethren of Purity ( ; also The Brethren of Sincerity ) were a secret society of Muslim philosophers in Basra , Iraq , in the 9th or 10th century CE. The structure of the organization and the identities of its members have never been clear. Their esoteric teachings and philosophy are expounded in an epistolary style in the Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity ( Rasā'il Ikhwān al-ṣafā' ), a giant compendium of 52 epistles that would greatly influence later encyclopedias. A good deal of Muslim and Western scholarship has been spent on just pinning down the identities of the Brethren and the century in which they were active. They are generally considered a secret society because of their closed and private meetings every 12 days, as mentioned in the Rasa'il . (1960), "On the Ethics of the Brethren of Purity", The Muslim World , 50: 109–121. نور, مكتبة.