Ikhwan Al-Safa: (The Brethren of Purity)
Ikhwan Al-Safa: (The Brethren of Purity)
Ikhwan Al-Safa: (The Brethren of Purity)
Under Supervisor
Haidar Bagir, MA
Introduction
• The name Ikhwan al-Safa was assumed by a group of
libres penseum (cultivated science and philosophy not
for the sake of science and philosophy, but in the hope
of forming a kind of an ethico-spiritual community)
• Ikhwan al-Safa is so scanty that no clear historical
picture of them
• Most scholars agree that they originated in Basrah, in
about 373/983
• The famous and important work of them is Rasa’il
Ikhwan al Safa (Epistles of the Ikhwan al Safa), about
52 epistles
Influences and Mixtures
Qur’an
Pythagoras
Numerology
Plato
Ikhwan al-Safa
Philosophy& hero
Aristotle
Definition & Structure
Plotinus
Philosophy & Emanation
System and theories
1. Classification of the sciences
2. Theory of knowledge
3. Metaphysics
4. Nature and Sciences
5. Psychology
6. Politics
7. Ethics
8. Education
9. Religion
1. Classification of the sciences (1)
3. Metaphysics
• Psycho-rationalism: psychics, rationalistics, being,
macrocosm, mind, great years, love, resurrection,
and causality.