Muslim neoplatonists : an introduction to the thought of the Brethren of Purity (Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʼ) /
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| Author / Creator: | Netton, Ian Richard. |
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| Imprint: | London ; New York, NY : RoutledgeCurzon, 2002. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 146 pages) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12014621 |
| Summary: | 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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| Item Description: | "The present volume is substantially as it appeared in 1982"--Page [xi]. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 146 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-142) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781136853906 1136853901 0700714669 9780700714667 |