Fraires de la Puretat

filosòfs musulmans a Bassòra, Iraq, al sègle X


Los fraires de la puretat (arabi: اخوان الصفا; transliteracion de: Ikhwan al-Safa; èran una societat secrèta[1] de filosòfs musulmans a Bassòra, Iraq, al sègle X, quand Bassòra èra lo sèti del califat abbassida.

L'estructura d'aquesta misteriosa organizacion e las identitats dels sieus sòcis foguèron pas jamai plan conegudas[2][3]. Lors ensenhaments esoterics e lor filosofia son expausats en un estil epistolar dins l'Enciclopèdia dels Fraires de la Puretat (arabi: Rasa'il Ikhwan al-safa'), un important recuèlh de 52 epistòlas qu'anava fortament influenciar las enciclopèdias venentas.

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  1. Son generalament considerats coma una societat secrèta amor de sas reünions privadas que se tenián cada dotze jorns coma o menciona lo Rasa'il.
  2. "Having been hidden within the cloak of secrecy from its very inception, the Rasa'il have provided many points of contention and have been a constant source of dispute among both Muslim and Western scholars. The identification of the authors, or possibly one author, the place and time of writing and propagation of their works, the nature of the secret brotherhood, the outer manifestation of which comprises the Rasa'il – these and many secondary questions have remained without answer." pg 25, Nasr (1964)
  3. William Bayne Fisher, Richard Nelson Frye, John Andrew Boyle, The Cambridge History of Iran, Published by Cambridge University Press, 1975, ISBN 0-521-20093-8, p. 428