In this latest episode I talk about the Ikhwan al-safa, or \"Brethren of Purity\" - a group of secretive philosophers and scholars who lived in medieval Basra, Iraq.
Sources used:
de Callatay, Godefroid (2006). \"Ikhwan al-safa - a brotherhood of idealists on the fringes of Orthodox Islam\". Oneworld Publications.
Walker, Paul E. (2005). \"The Isma'ilis\". In \"The Cambridge companion to Arabic Philosophy\". (Edited by Peter Adamson & Richard C. Taylor). Cambridge University Press.
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