The Ikhwan al-Safa and the Question of the Plurality of Opinions and Doctrines in their Age: Reasons for Human Differences a

Volume 1|Issue 3| Winter 2013 |Discussions

Abstract

In the fourth century AH/tenth century AD the Epistles of the Ikhwan al-Safa spread. Book dealers had them copied and sold and distributed them in bookshops and the streets. At that time the epistles caused a knowledge shock. They included a synthesis between religion and philosophy and aspired to the unification of religions and doctrines and sought to reproduce a system that combined different opinions and beliefs under a single ideological umbrella.
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ACRPS researcher and Lebanese journalist. He is interested in biography writing, and his major works include The Biography of Ibn Khaldun: Tragedy of an Arab philosophy 1332-1406 and Tyranny of Mind: Essays on the Political History of the Mu’tazilites (107AH/725AD – 321AH/933AD).

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