Love and the Brethren of Purity: A Comparative Study of Human Intimacy in Islamic Philosophy

This article is a study of the Brethren of Purity’s thirty-seventh epistle, The Essence of Love. It compares this work with the treatises on love written by the Muslim philosophers Ibn Sīnā, Suhrawardī, and Mullā Ṣadrā, the leading representatives of the Peripatetic, Illuminationist, and Transcenden...

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Authors: Toosi, Javad Fakhkhar (Author) ; Virani, Shafique N. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2022
In: Journal of Sufi studies
Year: 2022, Volume: 11, Issue: 2, Pages: 149-180
Further subjects:B Islamic Philosophy
B Ikhwān al-ṣafāʾ
B Mullā Ṣadrā
B Love
B Sexuality
B Ibn Sīnā
B Suhrawardī
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