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Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ
Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ, ed. Buṭrus al-Bustānī. 4 volumes. Beirut: Dār
Ṣādir and Dār Bayrūt, 1377/1957, 2004. [= Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ, Rasāʾil
(Beirut)]
Kitāb Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ wa-Khullān al-Wafāʾ li’l-imam al-humām quṭb
al-aqṭāb mawlānā Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāḥ, ed. Wilāyat Ḥusayn. 4
volumes. Bombay: Maṭbaʿat Nukhbat al-Akhbār, 1305–1306/1887–
1889. [= Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ, Rasāʾil (Bombay)]
Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ wa-Khillān al-Wafāʾ, ed. Khayr al-Dīn al-Ziriklī.
4 volumes. Cairo: al-Maṭbaʿa al-ʿArabiyya bi-Miṣr, al-Maktaba
al-Tijāriyya al-Kubrā, 1346/1928. [= Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ, Rasāʾil (Cairo)]
Al-Risāla al-Jāmiʿa, ed. Jamīl Ṣalībā. 2 volumes. Damascus: Maṭbūʿāt
al-Majmaʿ al-ʿIlmī al-ʿArabī, 1949.
NB The full reference to specific volumes of the current edition of the
Epistles of the Brethren of Purity is given in ‘Studies’, under the name of
the contributors. For Epistles 1 and 2, see El-Bizri, On Arithmetic and
Geometry; for Epistle 4, see Sánchez and Montgomery, On Geography;
for Epistles 15–21, see Baffioni, On the Natural Sciences; for Epistle
22, see Goodman and McGregor, The Case of the Animals; for Epistle
52a, see de Callataÿ and Halflants, On Magic I. The full reference to
the translation of individual epistles is also given in ‘Studies’, under
the name of the translator.
Epistles of the Brethren of Purity
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Abū Maʿshar. Kitāb al-Madkhal al-kabīr ilā ‘ilm aḥkām al-nujūm, ed.
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ʿAbd al-Ḳādir Sarfarāz. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Arabic, Persian
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Baffioni, Carmela. Appunti per un’epistemologia profetica. L’Epistola
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_____, ed. and tr. On the Natural Sciences; An Arabic Critical Edition
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Bausani, Alessandro. L’enciclopedia dei Fratelli della Purità. Riassunto,
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_____. The Rise of the Fatimids: The World of the Mediterranean and
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Caiozzo, Anna. Images du ciel d’Orient au Moyen Âge: une histoire du
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