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    The 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...
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    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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  • The following is a list of the rasa'il (epistles) which compose the influential Neoplatonic encyclopedia, the Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity composed...
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  • 22 in the Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity. The longest Encyclopedia entry, The Case of the Animals versus Man revolves around a group of talking...
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  • Muhammad al-Taqi (category Family of Muhammad)
    called the Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity (Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-ṣafā). He died in 840 in Salamiyah and was succeeded by his son al-Husayn. With the death...
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    the 10th century, the Brethren of Purity published the Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity, in which a heliocentric view of the universe is expressed...
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  • the thought of the Brethren of Purity (Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʼ). London [u.a.]: RoutledgeCurzon. p. 93. ISBN 978-0-7007-1466-7. The Jataka or stories of the Buddha's...
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  • were put to death, and when the records ˹of deeds˺ are laid open, and when the sky is stripped away, and when the Hellfire is fiercely flared up, and when...
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    Moors (redirect from The Moors)
    1007, Andalusian writer believed to have been the author of the Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity and the Picatrix. Al-Zahrawi (Abulcasis), Andalusian...
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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...
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  • Janina Safran (2003), Rules of purity and confessional boundaries: Maliki debates about the pollution of the Christian, History of religions, Vol. 42 No. 3...
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    alphabet. Around year 960, the Brethren of Purity of Basra were engaged in their Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity. Additional notable works include...
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  • were engaged in their Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity, which may be a unique example of a classical Arabic encyclopedia written by a group rather...
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    considers that the text must date to after the Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity and before the work of Ibn Juljul in the late 10th century. The section...
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  • Shia Islam (redirect from Etymology of Shia)
    ISBN 978-1-906497-51-4. Wikisource has the text of the 1905 New International Encyclopedia article "Shiites". Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica...
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    seriously discussed in the Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity. It was also translated from Arabic into Hebrew by Abraham ben Hasdai. The Hebrew text, along...
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  • on the heights [al-aʿrāf] of that barrier˺ will be people who will recognize ˹the residents of˺ both by their appearance. They will call out to the residents...
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    The New Encyclopedia of Islam. Walnut Creek CA: AltaMira Press p. 369 Akbar, Faiza. "The secular roots of religious dissidence in early Islam: the case...
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  • and dark, in a fashion similar to the fall of the Tenth Intellect. Al-Farabi Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity Al-Mu'ayyad fi'l-Din al-Shirazi Al-Qadi...
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    Cyril Glassé, The New Encyclopedia of Islam, pg. 39. Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press, 2008. Hoffman, Valerie J. "The articulation of Ibadi identity in...
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  • credentials. Moreover, the personal nature of the imamate for a long time prevented the rise of persistent institutions, rendering the Zaydi states established...
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    appear in an encyclopedia from Baghdad c. 983, the Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity (Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa). By the end of 12th century, the general...
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    Zaydism (category Islamic history of Yemen)
    caliphs preceding Ali..." The waning of the Umayyad caliphate by Tabarī, Carole Hillenbrand, 1989, pp. 37, 38 The Encyclopedia of Religion Vol. 16, Mircea...
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  • implicit in Arabic poetry. The 10th century Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity features a fictional anecdote of a "prince who strays from his palace during...
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  • The Perfumed Garden of Sensual Delight (Arabic: الروض العاطر في نزهة الخاطر Al-rawḍ al-ʿāṭir fī nuzhaẗ al-ḫāṭir) is a fifteenth-century Arabic sex manual...
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    Kate (ed.). Encyclopedia of Islam THREE. Brill Online. ISSN 1573-3912. Akhtar Rizvi, Sayyed Saeed (1985). Imamate (The Vicegerency of the Prophet). Tehran:...
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    "Judar and His Brethren", departs from the happy endings of previous variants and reworks the plot to give it a tragic ending instead, with the younger brother...
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    ISBN 978-0-86356-673-8. Jonathan M. Bloom; Sheila Blair (2009). The Grove encyclopedia of Islamic art and architecture. Oxford University Press. pp. 101...
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  • this month is usually given to the poor. The term zakah is related to the purity in Arabic. It is the annual taxation of one's excess wealth at certain...
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    Roc (mythology) (category Mythological birds of prey)
    The roc is an enormous legendary bird of prey in the popular mythology of the Middle East. The roc appears in Arab geographies and natural history, popularized...
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