Muslim neoplatonists : an introduction to the thought of the Brethren of Purity (Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʼ) /

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Author / Creator:	Netton, Ian Richard.
Imprint:	London ; New York, NY : RoutledgeCurzon, 2002.
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 146 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʼ. Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʼ Islamic philosophy. Philosophy, Medieval. Islamic philosophy. Philosophy, Medieval. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12014621

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Other authors / contributors:	Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʼ.
ISBN:	9781136853906 1136853901 0700714669 9780700714667
Notes:	"The present volume is substantially as it appeared in 1982"--Page [xi]. Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-142) and index. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Netton, Ian Richard. Muslim neoplatonists 0700714669

Table of Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PREFACE TO THIS EDITION; Chapter One The Ikhwān al-Safā' and their Rasā'il; Chapter Two The Legacy of Greece 1; Pythagoras; Plato; Aristotle; Chapter Three The Legacy of Greece 2 Neoplatonism; Chapter Four The Christian and Judaic Substrate; Christianity and the Rasā'il; Judaism and the Rasā'il; Chapter Five Uses of Literature; The Cloak of the Qur'ān; Indian Literature; Chapter Six The Ikhwān al-Safā' and the Ismā'īlīs; Conclusion The Ship of Salvation; ABBREVIATIONS; NOTES.

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