Nader El-Bizri is a Research Associate in Philosophy at The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, and General Editor of the OUP series: The Epistles of the Brethren of Purity. He has been an Affiliated Lecturer at the Department of History & Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge since 1999, and he is a Visiting Professor of Visual Studies at the School of Architecture at the University of Lincoln, and a Chercheur Associé at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris.

The project team, led by the editor Nader el-Bizri, are to be congratulated for collecting the leading specialists on this important early corpus of texts to produce a work that will whet the appetite of those awaiting the editions and translations.

• FOREWORD; PROLOGUE; 1. Why We Need an Arabic Critical Edition with an Annotated English Translation of the Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa'; 2. The Classification of Knowledge in the Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa'; 3. The Arrangement of the Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa' and the Problem of Interpolations [with a Postscript]; 4. The Scope of the Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa'; 5. The Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa' in the History of Ideas in Islam; 6. 'Misled and Misleading' ... 'Yet Central in their Intellectual Influence!' Ibn Taymiyya's Views on Ikhwan al-Safa'; 7. Epistolary Prolegomena: On Arithmetic and Geometry; 8. Music and Musicology in the Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa'; 9. Reading The Case of the Animals versus Man: Fable and Philosophy in the Essays of the Ikhwan al-Safa'; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Nader El-Bizri is a Research Associate in Philosophy at The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, and General Editor of the OUP series: The Epistles of the Brethren of Purity. He has been an Affiliated Lecturer at the Department of History & Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge since 1999, and he is a Visiting Professor of Visual Studies at the School of Architecture at the University of Lincoln, and a Chercheur Associé at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris.

The project team, led by the editor Nader el-Bizri, are to be congratulated for collecting the leading specialists on this important early corpus of texts to produce a work that will whet the appetite of those awaiting the editions and translations.

• FOREWORD; PROLOGUE; 1. Why We Need an Arabic Critical Edition with an Annotated English Translation of the Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa'; 2. The Classification of Knowledge in the Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa'; 3. The Arrangement of the Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa' and the Problem of Interpolations [with a Postscript]; 4. The Scope of the Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa'; 5. The Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa' in the History of Ideas in Islam; 6. 'Misled and Misleading' ... 'Yet Central in their Intellectual Influence!' Ibn Taymiyya's Views on Ikhwan al-Safa'; 7. Epistolary Prolegomena: On Arithmetic and Geometry; 8. Music and Musicology in the Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa'; 9. Reading The Case of the Animals versus Man: Fable and Philosophy in the Essays of the Ikhwan al-Safa'; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Nader El-Bizri is a Research Associate in Philosophy at The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, and General Editor of the OUP series: The Epistles of the Brethren of Purity. He has been an Affiliated Lecturer at the Department of History & Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge since 1999, and he is a Visiting Professor of Visual Studies at the School of Architecture at the University of Lincoln, and a Chercheur Associé at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris.

The project team, led by the editor Nader el-Bizri, are to be congratulated for collecting the leading specialists on this important early corpus of texts to produce a work that will whet the appetite of those awaiting the editions and translations.

• FOREWORD; PROLOGUE; 1. Why We Need an Arabic Critical Edition with an Annotated English Translation of the Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa'; 2. The Classification of Knowledge in the Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa'; 3. The Arrangement of the Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa' and the Problem of Interpolations [with a Postscript]; 4. The Scope of the Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa'; 5. The Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa' in the History of Ideas in Islam; 6. 'Misled and Misleading' ... 'Yet Central in their Intellectual Influence!' Ibn Taymiyya's Views on Ikhwan al-Safa'; 7. Epistolary Prolegomena: On Arithmetic and Geometry; 8. Music and Musicology in the Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa'; 9. Reading The Case of the Animals versus Man: Fable and Philosophy in the Essays of the Ikhwan al-Safa'; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX