Rasā'il Ikhwān al-Ṣafā' - Bibliography

 

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Rasā'il Ikhwān al-Ṣafā' ("The Treatises of the Brethren of Purity"),

Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa' - Select Bibliography

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Fifty-two or so Arabic most likely Isma'ili related epistles ultimately set down in the late 4th AH /10th cent. CE. 

"The Encyclopedia is divided into fifty-two epistles (rasa'il) of varying lengths, which make up four books. Each book develops different topics: Book 1: the mathematical sciences (14 rasa'il) include theory of number, geometry, astronomy, geography, music, theoretical and practical arts, ethics and logic. Book 2: the natural sciences (17 rasa'il) comprehend matter, form, motion, time, space, sky and universe, generation and corruption, meteorology, minerals, plants, animals, human body, perception, embryology, man as microcosm, development of souls in the body, limit of knowledge, death, pleasure, and language. Book 3: the psychological and rational sciences (10 rasa'il) comprehend intellectual principles (Pythagoras and Ikhwan), universe as macrocosm, intelligence and intelligible, periods and era, passion, resurrection, species of movement, cause and effect, definitions and descriptions. Book 4: the theological sciences (11 rasa'il) include doctrines and religions, way to God, doctrine of Ikhwan, essence of faith, divine law and prophethood, appeal to God, hierarchy, spiritual beings, politics, magic and talisman."

  • Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa' wa Khullan al-Wafa', 4 vols, Bombay: Matba'at nukhbat al-akhbar, 1887-9.
  • Rasa'il ikhwan al-safa', by Ikhwan al-Safa'. 4  vols. (in 2) Cairo: ADD., 1347 / 1926.
  • Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa' wa Khullan al-Wafa', 4 vols, Cairo: al- M a t ba'a al-'Arabiyya bi-misr, 1928.
  • al-Risala al-jami'a, Damascus: al- Majma' al-'ilmi al-'arabi, 1949 - 51.
  • Risalat jami'at al-jami'a, Beirut: Dar maktabat al-hayat, 1970.
  • al-Risala al-jami'a, Beirut: Dar Sadr, 1974.
  • Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa' wa khullan al-wafa', 4 Vols. Beirut: Dar Sadr, 1957 + 1983. 

Select Articles

'Awa, Ά.,

  •  L'esprit critique des Freres de la Purete, Beirut: Imprimerie Catholique, 1948.

Baffioni, C,

  • 1989. L'epistola degli Ihwan al-Safa', Naples: Istituto Universitario Orientale, 1989.
  • 2001, “Frammenti e testimonianze platoniche nelle Rasâ’il degli Ikhwân al-Safâ’”, in Autori classici in lingue del Vicino e Medio Oriente, G. Fiaccadori (ed.), Roma: Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, pp. 163–178.
  •  2008, L'influence des Ikhwân al-Safâ’ sur la minéralogie de Hamîd al-Dîn al-Kirmânî, in G. de Callataÿ, B. Van den Abeele eds., Une lumière venue d’ailleurs. Héritages et ouvertures dans les encyclopédies d’Orient et d’Occident au Moyen Age, Actes du colloque de Louvain-la-Neuve, 19-21 mai 2005, Louvain-la-Neuve: Brepols, pp. 31-47.
  • 2009, Le monde végétal dans la Râhat al-‘aql de Hamîd al-Dîn al-Kirmânî et l'influence des Ikhwân al-Safâ’, in A. Paravicini Bagliani ed., Le monde végétal. Médicine, botanique, symbolique, Tavernuzze-Impruneta (Firenze): SISMEL-Edizioni del Galluzzo, pp. 63–75.
  • 2010, La science des pierres précieuses dans l'Épître des Ikhwân al-Safâ’: entre les catalogues encyclopédiques et le commentaire philosophique, in J. Thomasset, J. Ducos, J.-P. Chambon eds., Aux origines de la géologie de l’Antiquité au Moyen Âge, Actes du Colloque International 10–12 mars 2005, Paris Sorbonne (Paris IV), Paris: Honoré Champion, pp. 75–90.
  • 2011, Ibdâ‘, Divine Imperative and Prophecy in the Rasâ’il Ikhwân al-Safâ’, in O. Ali-de-Unzaga ed., Fortesses of the Intellect. Ismaili and Other Islamic Studies in Honour of Farhad Daftary, London-New York: I.B. Tauris Publishers in Association with the Institute of the Ismaili Studies, pp. 213–226.

Bausani, Αlessandro (          ).

  •  L'enciclopedia dei Fratelli della Purita, Naples: Istituto Universitario Orientale, 1978.

 

De Callatay, Godefroid, 

  • Ikhwan al-Safa': les revolutions et les cycles, Beirut: al-Buraq, 1996.
  • Ikhwan al-Safa (Makers of the Muslim World) (Hardcover) by Godefroid de Callatay Oxford: Oneworld, 200X

Diwald, S.,

  • Arahische Philosophie und Wissenschaft in der Enzyklopadie Kitab as-Safa', iii,  Wiesbaden: O. Harrasowitz, 1975.
  • Arabische Philosophie und Wissenschaft in der Enzyklopädie Kitab Ihwan as-Safa' III: Die Lehre von Seele und Intellekt (Arab Philosophy and Science in the Book of the Brethren of Purity III: Teachings on the Soul and the Intellect), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

El-Bizri, Nader.

  • `Ikhwan al-Safa', BEIP 1: 322-331.
  • The Epistles of the Brethren of Purity. Ikhwan al-Safa' and their Rasa'il: An Introduction  by Nader El-Bizri. Publisher: Oxford University Press (USA.) 2009. 328 pp.  ISBN-10: 0199557241 +  ISBN-13: 978-0199557240

Farrukh, U.,

  •  'Ikhwan al-Safa', in A : History of Muslim Philosophy, > vol. I, ed. M.M. Sharif, Delhi: \ Low Price Publications, 1999, pp< 2 8 9 - 3 1

Goodman, L. E.,

  • The Case of the Animals versus Man before the King of the Jinn, Boston: Twaynej Publishers, 1978.

Marquet, Y.,

  • La Philosophie des ;· Ihwan al-Safa', Algiers: Societe Nationale d'edition et de diffusion, 1975.
  • La philosophie des Ihwan al-Safa' (The Philosophy of the Brethren of Purity), Algiers: Société Nationale d'Édition et de Diffusion. 1975. 

Netton, I.R.,

  • Muslim Neoplatonisti An Introduction to the Thought < of the Brethren of Purity, London: G. Allen and Unwin, 1982.
  • Muslim Neoplatonists: An Introduction to the Thought of the Brethren of Purity (Ikhwan al-Safa'), London: Allen & Unwin; paperback edn, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1991.
  • 'The Brethren of Purity', in S.H. Nasr and O. Leaman (eds) History of Islamic Philosophy, London: Routledge, ch. 15, 222-30. 1996.

Poonawala, I. K.,

  •  'The Qur'an in `Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa', in Selected Proceedings of the International Congress for the Study of the Qur'an, Canberra: Australian National University, Faculty of Asian Studies, 1980, pp. 51-67.

Stern, S.M.,

  • 'New Information 1 About the Authors of the > 'Epistles of the Sincere BrethrenV ILERI Islamic Studies, 1964, vol. 3, pp. 405-28.

Tibawi, A.-L.,

  • 'Ikhwan as-Safa' and their Rasa'il: A Critical Review of a Century and a Half of Research', Islamic Quarterly, 1955, vol. 2, pp. 28-46.
  • 'Ikhwan as-Safa' and Their Rasa'il: A Critical Review of a Century and a Half of Research', Islamic Quarterly 2 (1): 28-46.

 

 

 

 

 

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