Brethren of Purity - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Brethren of Purity - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
de Callataÿ, Godefroid

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1061135
Doc. NO	:	ALei1532
Main Entry	:	de Callataÿ, Godefroid
Title & Author	:	Brethren of Purity - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ de Callataÿ, Godefroid
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(3,559 words)
Abstract	:	The Brethren of Purity and the Friends of Loyalty (Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ wa-Khullān al-Wafāʾ) is the name used by the authors of a large and influential encyclopedic work of mediaeval Islam in order to disguise their identity. The work is traditionally referred to in literature as the “Epistles of the Brethren of Purity” (Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ) because it presents itself as a collection of about fifty treatises written in the form of epistles and addressed to a fictive “brother.” In addition to this collection, there are a “
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei1532.pdf