This paper intervenes in a contemporary debate on the animal ethics of the Brethren of
Purity's (Iḫwān al-Ṣafāʾ) epistle on animals. I argue that they present a case for justice for …

The worldview of Islam, as of Judaism and Christianity, is often characterized as
anthropocentric: the human being is the crown of creation; the value of non-human animals …

The most famous piece of the collection of Rasāʾil written by the Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ is
probably the animal fable included in Epistle 22, known in its English translation as “The …

The epistle on animals by the Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ has never ceased to exert a kind of
fascination, but the attention of its readers, ancient and modern alike, has hitherto been …

This article explores the relationships between humans and animals in Iraqi prose fiction
from the 1940s and 1950s. It argues that Iraqi authors wrote about animals to underline not …

The Ġāyat al-ḥakīm (“the Aim of the Sage”), the Arab ancestor of the celebrated Picatrix on
astral magic, includes a curious tenfold classification of the sciences, with five disciplines …

In the last twenty years or so, a number of important studies have been published on the
reception of Pythagoras in Antiquity, as well as on the transformation of Pythagorean …

Dialogues and interlocutions in Arabic alchemical writings have already attracted the
attention of several researchers. These previous studies mainly focused on dialogues …

In the medieval Arabic tradition of the so-called occult sciences, the concept of ramz
(symbol, code) has acquired an important role in the way the authors were considering and …

The article deals with the problem of animal suffering in the Muʻtazila, the most prominent
theological school of the first Islamic centuries. Divine justice is one of the two primary …