Epistles of the Brethern of Purity : On God and the world. An Arabic critical edition and English translation of Epistles 49-51
\ edited and translated by Wilferd Madelung, Cyril V. Uy, Carmela Baffioni, Nuha Alshaar
Foreword by Nader El- Bizri
New York
: Oxford University Press
, 2019
xxiii, 469 , 370 p
Epistles of the Brethren of Purity
Text in English and Arabic
This volume presents three of the Epistles of the Brethren of Purity, a monumental work of medieval Islamic learning. Epistle 49 explores the hierarchy of existence; Epistle 50 describes the proper attitudes towards body and soul; Epistle 51 considers the arrangement of the world on numerical principles
رسائل اخوان الصفاء و خلان الوفاء ۴۹-۵۱: الرساله الثامنه الی الرساله العاشره من القسم الرابع فی الناموسیه الالهیه