EPISTLES OF THE BRETHREN OF PURITY. On Music. An Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of EPISTLE 5 Edited and Translated PDF
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EPISTLES OF THE BRETHREN OF PURITY On Music An Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of EPISTLE 5 Edited and Translated by Owen Wright Foreword by NaderEI-Bizri OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS inassociationwith The InstituteofIsmailiStudies OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS GreatClarendonStreet,OxfordOX26DP OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. ItfurtherstheUniversity'sobjectiveofexcellenceinresearch,scholarship, andeducationbypublishingworldwidein Oxford NewYork Auckland CapeTown DaresSalaam HongKong Karachi KualaLumpur Madrid Melbourne MexicoCity Nairobi NewDelhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto Withofficesin Argentina Austria Brazil Chile CzechRepublic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore SouthKorea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam OxfordisaregisteredtrademarkofOxfordUniversityPress intheUKandcertainothercountries PublishedintheUnitedStates byOxfordUniversityPressInc.,NewYork ©IslamicPublicationsLtd.2010 Themoralrightsoftheauthorshavebeenasserted DatabaserightOxfordUniversityPress(maker) Firstpublished2010 Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced, storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans, withoutthepriorpermissioninwritingofOxfordUniversityPress, orasexpresslypermittedbylaw,orundertermsagreedwiththeappropriate reprographicsrightsorganization.Enquiriesconcerningreproduction outsidethescopeoftheaboveshouldbesenttotheRightsDepartment, OxfordUniversityPress,attheaddressabove Youmustnotcirculatethisbookinanyotherbindingorcover andyoumustimposethesameconditiononanyacquirer BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData Dataavailable LibraryofCongressCataloguinginPublicationData Dataavailable ISBN978-0-19-959398-9 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 Typesetandprintedin Lebanon onacid-freepaperb\" The Institute ofIsmaili Studies TheInstituteofIsmailiStudieswasestablishedin 1977withtheobject ofpromotingscholarship andlearningon Islam, in historical as well ascontemporarycontexts,andabetterunderstandingofitsrelationship with othersocieties and faiths. The Institute's programmes encourage a perspective which is not confined to the theological and religious heritage ofIslam, butseeks to explore the relationship ofreligious ideas to broader dimensions ofsociety and culture. The programmes thus encourage an inter disciplinaryapproachtothematerialsofIslamichistoryand thought. Particular attention is also given to issues ofmodernitythat arise as Muslims seekto relate theirheritageto the contemporarysituation. Within the Islamic tradition, the Institute's programmes seek to promoteresearchonthoseareaswhichhave,todate, receivedrelatively littleattentionfrom scholars.Theseincludetheintellectualandliterary expressions ofShi'ism in general, and Ismailism in particular. In the contextofIslamicsocieties, the Institute's programmesare informedbythe full range anddiversityofcultures inwhich Islam is practised today, from the Middle East, South and Central Asia, and Africa to the industrialised societies ofthe West, thus taking into consideration the variety ofcontexts which shape the ideals, beliefs andpracticesofthe faith. These objectives are realised through concrete programmes and activities organised and implemented by various departments programme-specific basis, with other institutions oflearningin the United Kingdom and abroad. The Institute's academic publications fall into several distinct and interrelated categories: 1. Occasional papers or essays addressing broad themes ofthe relationshipbetweenreligionandsociety,withspecialreference to Islam. 2. Monographs exploring specific aspects of Islamic faith and culture, or the contributions ofindividual Muslim figures orwriters. 3. Editionsortranslationsofsignificantprimaryorsecondarytexts. 4. Translations ofpoetic orliterarytexts which illustrate the rich heritage ofspiritual, devotional, and symbolic expressions in Muslimhistory. 5. Works on Ismaili history and thought, and the relationship of the Ismailis to other traditions, communities, and schools of thoughtin Islam. 6. Proceedings of conferences and seminars sponsored by the Institute. 7. Bibliographicalworksandcatalogueswhichdocumentmanuscripts, printed texts, andothersource materials. This bookfalls into categorythree listedabove. In facilitating these and otherpublications, the Institute's sole aim is to encourage original research and analysis ofrelevant issues. While every effort is made to ensure that the publications are ofa high academicstandard, thereisnaturallyboundtobeadiversityofviews, ideas and interpretations. As such, the opinions expressed in these publicationsmustbeunderstood asbelongingto theirauthors alone. EditorialBoard NaderEI-Bizri (GeneralEditor) TheInstituteofIsmailiStudies Hermann Landolt McGillUniversityandtheInstituteofIsmailiStudies WilferdMadelung UniversityofOxfordandtheInstituteofIsmailiStudies Ismail K. Poonawala UniversityofCalifornia, LosAngeles AdvisoryBoard CarmelaBaffioni UniversitadegliStudidiNapoli"L'Orientale" PatriciaCrone PrincetonUniversity Farhad Daftary TheInstituteofIsmailiStudies LennE. Goodman VanderbiltUniversity Abbas Hamdani UniversityofWisconsin YvesMarquet t Sorbonne Yahya Michot HartfordSeminary TamesMontgomery UniversityofCambridge Azim Nanji StanfordUniversity lan RichardNetton UniversityofExeter Roshdi Rashed Epistles ofthe Brethren ofPurity TheEpistlesoftheBrethren ofPurityispublishedbyOxfordUniversity PressinassociationwiththeInstituteofIsmailiStudies, London. This bilingual series consists ofa multi-authored Arabic critical edition and annotated English translation ofthe RasifilIkhwan al-Safa) (ca. tenth-centuryIraq). Previouslypublished Nader EI-Bizri, ed., The Ikhwan al-Safa' and their 'Rasa)il': An Introduction (2008). Ikhwan al-Safa), The Case oftheAnimals versusMan Before the King ofthe]inn:AnArabicCriticalEdition andEnglish Translation of Epistle22, ed. andtr. LennE. GoodmanandRichardMcGregor, Epistlesofthe Brethren ofPurity(2009). Ikhwan al-Safa), On Logic: An Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation ofEpistles10-14)ed.andtr. CarmelaBaffioni,Epistles ofthe Brethren ofPurity(2010).
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