Research Catalog

Title

On arithmetic and geometry : an Arabic critical edition and English translation of Epistles 1-2 / edited and translated by Nader El-Bizri, with a foreword.

Author

Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʼ.

Publication

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

El-Bizri, Nader.

Description

xxiii, 187, 157 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

The Ikhwan al-Safa' (Brethren of Purity), the anonymous adepts of a tenth-century esoteric fraternity based in Basra and Baghdad, hold an eminent position in the history of science and philosophy in Islam due to the wide reception and assimilation of their monumental encyclopaedia, the Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa' (Epistles of the Brethren of Purity). This compendium contains fifty-two epistles offering synoptic accounts of the classical sciences and philosophies of the age; divided into four classificatory parts, it treats themes in mathematics, logic, natural philosophy, psychology, metaphysics, and theology, in addition to didactic fables.

Uniform Title

Rasāʼil. 1-2. English & Arabic

Alternative Title

• Epistles of the Brethren of Purity
• Fī al-ʻadad wa-al-handasah
• Rasāʼil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʼ wa-Khullān al-Wafāʼ (1-2) : al-risālah al-ūlá wa-al-risālah al-thāniyah Fī al-ʻadad wa-al-handasah, min al-qism al-awwal fī al-ʻulūm al-riyāḍīyah al-taʻlīmīyah
• Rasāʼil. 1-2.

Subjects

• Metaphysics
• Arithmetik
• Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʼ Rasāʼil
• Mathematics, Arab
• Islamische Philosophie
• Mathematics > Philosophy
• Rasāʼil (Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʼ)
• Geometrie

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

• Text in English and Arabic.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: Epistle 1 On Arithmetic -- Epistle 2 On Geometry.

ISBN

• 9780199655601
• 019965560X

LCCN

2012498330

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries