Filsafat Ikhwan Ash-Shafa (original) (raw)

ULUL ALBAB Jurnal Studi Islam

Brethren of Purity (Ikhwan al-Safa) is a group of philosophers in medieval Islamic history. There are some opinions of their origin. Brethren of Purity emerge in Basrah in tenth century, but their religious and political affiliation is still in mystery. They declared themselves as opposants of any chastity, impurity, or opacity. Their tlwughts compiled in an ency clopedia containing of fifty two treaties (epistles), titled al-Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa wa Khullan al-Wafa. Al-Rasa'il extensively surveys a huge range of subjects ranging from music to magic. They are didactic in tone and highly ecletic in content, providing both paedagogical and culture mirror of their Age and its diverse philosophies and creeds. It's neatly devilled into four main parts: fourteen focused on mathematical sciences, seventeen deal with tire natural sciences, and eleven conclude the latest four-vulume Arabic edition by concentrating on what are called metaphysic or theological sciences. Therefore, al-Rasail is still debah' ble of its origin, one claims to the writing of Ali bin Abi Talib, the fourth Muslim Caliph (d. 40/661), or the writing of the sixth Shi'ite imam, Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq. The encyclopaedia aspires to encompass all knowledge, from all sources, and to give meaning to the struggles of the human race. One of all amazing notions of the Brethren of Purity is a numerical symbolism as applied to explain qualitative correspondence of three principal beings: God as The Creator, universe, and human being.