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Muslim neoplatonists : an introduction to the thought of the Brethren of Purity (Ikhwan al-Safa).
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ISBN: 0042970431 9780042970431 Year: 1982 Publisher: London Allen and Unwin

Muslim Neoplatonists : an introduction to the thought of the Brethren of Purity (Ikhwan al-Safa')
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ISBN: 1138147176 1136853901 1315028859 1136853839 9781136853906 0700714669 9780700714667 9781315028859 9781136853975 9781138147171 Year: 2013 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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The tenth or eleventh century group of the Brethren of Purity (Ikhwan al Safa) are as well known in the Arab world as Darwin, Marx and Freud in the west. Designed as an introduction to their ideas, this book concentrates on the Brethren's writings, analyzing the impact on them of thinkers such as Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle and the Neoplatonists. Ian Netton traces the influences of Judaism and Christianity, and controversially this book argues that the Brethren of Purity did not belong to the Ismaili branch of Islam as is generally believed.


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The origins of visual culture in the Islamic world : aesthetics, art and architecture in early Islam
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ISBN: 1350989002 0857726501 9780857726506 9780857738868 0857738860 1784530409 Year: 2018 Publisher: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Publishing,

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"In tenth-century Iraq, a group of Arab intellectuals and scholars known as the Ikhwan al-Safa began to make their intellectual mark on the society around them. A mysterious organisation, the identities of its members have never been clear. But its contribution to the intellectual thought, philosophy, art and culture of the era - and indeed subsequent ones - is evident. In the visual arts, for example, Hamdouni Alami argues that the theory of human proportions which the Ikwan al-Safa propounded (something very similar to those of da Vinci), helped shape the evolution of the philosophy of aesthetics, art and architecture in the tenth and eleventh centuries CE, in particular in Egypt under the Fatimid rulers. With its roots in Pythagorean and Neoplatonic views on the role of art and architecture, the impact of this theory of specific and precise proportion was widespread. One of the results of this extensive influence is a historic shift in the appreciation of art and architecture and their perceived role in the cultural sphere. The development of the understanding of the interplay between ethics and aesthetics resulted in a movement which emphasised more abstract and pious contemplation of art, as opposed to previous views which concentrated on the enjoyment of artistic works (such as music, song and poetry). And it is with this shift that we see the change in art forms from those devoted to supporting the Umayyad caliphs and the opulence of the Abbasids, to an art which places more emphasis on the internal concepts of 'reason' and 'spirituality'.Using the example of Fatimid art and views of architecture (including the first Fatimid mosque in al-Mahdiyya, Tunisia), Hamdouni Alami offers analysis of the debates surrounding the ethics and aesthetics of the appreciation of Islamic art and architecture from a vital time in medieval Middle Eastern history, and shows their similarity with aesthetic debates of Italian Renaissance."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

La philosophie des alchimistes et l'alchimie des philosophes : Jâbir ibn Hayyân et les "Frères de la pureté"
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ISBN: 270680954X 9782706809545 Year: 1988 Volume: 31 Publisher: Paris : G.-P. Maisonneuve & Larose,

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