The origin and early development of philosophy in tenth-century al-Andalus: the impact of ill-defined materials and channels of transmission.

Rutba vs Ġāya: A Reconsideration of the Impact of the Rasāʾil Iḫwān al-Ṣafāʾ on Maslama b. Qāsim al-Qurṭubī

Author(s): Godefroid de Callataÿ
Published in: Arabica, Issue 68 (5-6), 2021, Page(s) 495–509, ISSN 0570-5398
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/15700585-12341604

Following the Steps of the Ikhwān al-Ṣafā’ in the Ottoman Word II: ‘Abd al-Raḥmān al-Biṣtāmī and his tashjīr diagrams of science

Author(s): Godefroid de Callataÿ
Published in: Mediterranea. International Journal on the Transfer of Knowledge, Issue 8, 2023, Page(s) 55–88, ISSN 2445-2378
Publisher: Crodoba
DOI: 10.21071/mijtk.v8i.15055

The Authorship of al-Risāla l-Ǧāmiʿa Re-Examined

Author(s): Janne Mattila
Published in: Arabica, Issue 68 (5-6), 2021, Page(s) 461–494, ISSN 0570-5398
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/15700585-12341605

The Four Signs of the Art: Edition and Translation of an Alchemical Epistle Attributed to Ḫālid b. Yazīd and its Latin Translation

Author(s): Marion Dapsens, Sébastien Moureau
Published in: Arabica, Issue 68 (5-6), 2021, Page(s) 557–627, ISSN 0570-5398
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/15700585-059000000

An Arabic Version of Qusṭā B. Lūqā’s De Physicis Ligaturis?

Author(s): Godefroid de Callataÿ, Sébastien Moureau
Published in: Micrologus, Issue 33, 2025, ISSN 1123-2560
Publisher: SISMEL - Edizioni del Galluzzo

Dividing Science By Ten

Author(s): Godefroid de Callataÿ
Published in: Studia Islamica, Issue 115 (1), 2020, Page(s) 1-32, ISSN 0585-5292
Publisher: Maisonneuve et Larose
DOI: 10.1163/19585705-12341405

Following the Steps of the Ikhwān al-Ṣafā’ in the Ottoman Word I: Insights from Three Universal Histories

Author(s): Fatma Sinem Eryılmaz, Godefroid de Callataÿ
Published in: Journal of Islamic Studies, Issue 34 (3), 2023, Page(s) 340–370, ISSN 0955-2340
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/jis/etad001

Classification of the sciences in Islamic cultures

Author(s): Godefroid de Callataÿ
Published in: Knowledge Organization, 2024, ISSN 0943-7444
Publisher: Ergon Verlag

What is Islamic Esotericism?

Author(s): Liana Saif
Published in: Correspondences: Journal for the Study of Esotericism, Issue 7 (1), 2018, Page(s) 1-59, ISSN 2053-7158
Publisher: online only

Foreword: The PhilAnd Project

Author(s): Godefroid de Callataÿ
Published in: Arabica, Issue 68 (5-6), 2021, Page(s) 457–460, ISSN 0570-5398
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/15700585-12341625

Scientific Method in Late-Antique Paganism: The (Rational) Empiricism of al-Filāḥa l-nabaṭiyya (The Nabatean Agriculture)

Author(s): Elaine Van Dalen
Published in: Arabica, Issue 68 (5-6), 2021, Page(s) 510–556, ISSN 0570-5398
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/15700585-12341624

Looted Libraries and Legitimation Policies: Ptolemy, the Library of al-Arawšī and the Translation Movement in Toledo

Author(s): José Bellver
Published in: Arabica, Issue 68 (5-6), 2021, Page(s) 628–661, ISSN 0570-5398
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/15700585-12341626

In code we trust: the concept of <i>rumūz</i> in Andalusī alchemical literature and related texts

Author(s): Sébastien Moureau; Godefroid De Callatay
Published in: Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft, Issue 75 (2), 2021, Page(s) 429-447, ISSN 0004-4717
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/asia-2020-0038

Encyclopaedism on the Fringe of Islamic Orthodoxy: The Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ, the Rutbat al-ḥakīm and the Ghāyat al-ḥakīm on the Division of Science

Author(s): Godefroid de Callataÿ
Published in: Asiatische Studien - Études Asiatiques, Issue 71/3, 2017, Page(s) 857-877, ISSN 0004-4717
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/asia-2017-0002

A Milestone in the History of Andalusī Bāṭinism: Maslama b. Qāsim al-Qurṭubī’s Riḥla in the East

Author(s): Godefroid de Callataÿ, Sébastien Moureau
Published in: Intellectual History of the Islamicate World, Issue 5/1, 2017, Page(s) 86-117, ISSN 2212-9421
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/2212943x-00501004

Exégèse et théologie de l’Islam shi’ite: Rasā’il Ikhwān al-Ṣafā’

Author(s): Godefroid de Callataÿ
Published in: Annuaire. Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Religieuses, t. 124 (2015-2016), 2017, Page(s) 353-362, ISSN 1969-6329
Publisher: Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes
DOI: 10.4000/asr.1650

‘For Those with Eyes to See’: On the Hidden Meaning of the Animal Fable in the Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ

Author(s): Godefroid de Callataÿ
Published in: Journal of Islamic Studies, Issue 29/3, 2018, Page(s) 357-391, ISSN 0955-2340
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/jis/ety019

The Ṣābi’ans of Ṣā‘id al-Andalusī

Author(s): Godefroid de Callataÿ
Published in: Studia Graeco-Arabica, Issue 7, 2017, Page(s) 291-306, ISSN 2239-012X
Publisher: Pacini Editore

Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ’s Religious Reform and Magic: Beyond the Ismaʿili Hypothesis

Author(s): Liana Saif
Published in: Journal of Islamic Studies, Issue 30/1, 2018, Page(s) 34-68, ISSN 0955-2340
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/jis/ety020

Min al-Kīmiyā’ ad Alchimiam. The Transmission of Alchemy from the Arab-Muslim world to the Latin West in the Middle Ages

Author(s): Sébastien Moureau
Published in: Micrologus, Issue 28, 2020, Page(s) 87–141, ISSN 1123-2560
Publisher: SISMEL - Edizioni del Galluzzo

Restoring harmony through the propaedeutic science of music. A Reconsideration of the Brethren of Purity epistles on music and its relation with the epistle on proportions

Author(s): Laura Tribuzio
Published in: Micrologus, Issue 33, 2025, ISSN 1123-2560
Publisher: SISMEL - Edizioni del Galluzzo

The beginnings of rational theology in Al-Andalus : Ibn Masarra and his refutation of Al-Kindī’s on first philosophy

Author(s): Bellver, José
Published in: Al-Qanṭara, Issue 41 (2), 2020, Page(s) 323-371, ISSN 0211-3589
Publisher: Consejo Superior De Investigaciones Cientificas
DOI: 10.3989/alqantara.2020.009

The Ikhwān al-Ṣafā’ on Animals. A focus on the non-narrative part of Epistle 22

Author(s): Godefroid de Callataÿ
Published in: Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Issue 22 (1), 2022, Page(s) 31-49, ISSN 0806-198X
Publisher: online only
DOI: 10.5617/jais.9879

A Preliminary Study of the Pseudo-Aristotelian Hermetica: Texts, Context, and Doctrines

Author(s): Liana Saif
Published in: Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā, Issue 29, 2021, Page(s) 20-80, ISSN 1068-1051
Publisher: online
DOI: 10.52214/uw.v29i1.8895

M-Classi, a New Digital Tool for the Classification of the Sciences, in Islam and Beyond

Author(s): Rémy Baranx, Godefroid de Callataÿ, Hubert Naets
Published in: Micrologus, Issue 33, 2025, ISSN 1123-2560
Publisher: SISMEL - Edizioni del Galluzzo

From Ashʿarism to waḥda muṭlaqa in Andalusī Sufism: A Survey of Historical Sources on the Shūdhiyya

Author(s): José Bellver
Published in: Studia Islamica, Issue 118 (1), 2023, Page(s) 48–103, ISSN 0585-5292
Publisher: Maisonneuve et Larose
DOI: 10.1163/19585705-12341475

Islamicate Occult Sciences in Theory and Practice

Author(s): Liana Saif, Francesca Leoni, Matthew Melvin-Koushki
Published in: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East, Issue 140, 2020, ISBN 978-90-04-42696-2
Publisher: Brill

A Cultural History of Chemistry. Volume 2. Middle Ages

Author(s): Charles Burnett, Sébastien Moureau
Published in: A Cultural History, 2023, ISBN 9781474294546
Publisher: Bloomsbury

The Ikhwānian Corpus. A Study of Rasāʼil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʼ, al-Risāla al-Jāmiʻa, and Risālat Jāmiʻat al-Jāmiʻa

Author(s): Janne Mattila
Published in: Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science, 2025
Publisher: Brill

Islamic Esotericism, A Special Issue of: Correspondences: Journal for the Study of Esotericism

Author(s): Liana Saif
Published in: Correspondences: Journal for the Study of Esotericism, Issue 7 (1), 2019
Publisher: online only

The Epistles of the Brethren of Purity, On the Natural Sciences Part II. An Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of Epistles 23-28

Author(s): Carmela Baffioni, Nader El-Bizri, N. Abbas, Eric Ormsby, Antonella Straface, Godefroid de Callataÿ
Published in: Epistles of the Brethren of Purity 23-28, 2025
Publisher: Oxford University Press

Speculum arabicum. Intersecting perspectives on medieval encyclopaedism

Author(s): Godefroid de Callataÿ, Mattia Cavagna, BaudouinVan den Abeele
Published in: Publications de l'Institut d'études médiévales - Textes, Etudes, Congres, Issue 33, 2021, ISBN 978-94-6451-922-8
Publisher: Brepols

The Epistles of the Brethren of Purity, On Magic. 2. An Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of Epistles 52b and 52c

Author(s): Godefroid de Callataÿ, Bruno Halflants, Janne Mattila, Sébastien Moureau
Published in: Epistles of the Brethren of Purity, 2025
Publisher: Oxford University Press

Science and Craft: the Relations between the Theoretical and Practical Sides of the Occult Sciences in the Islamic world

Author(s): Godefroid de Callataÿ, Sébastien Moureau, Liana Saif
Published in: Micrologus Library, 2025
Publisher: SISMEL - Edizioni del Galluzzo

Micrologus 33: Special Issue: Power, Religion, and Wisdom: Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy in al-Andalus and Beyond

Author(s): Godefroid de Callataÿ, Sébastien Moureau
Published in: Micrologus, Issue 33, 2025
Publisher: SISMEL - Edizioni del Galluzzo

The Epistles of the Brethren of Purity. On Composition and the Arts. An Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of Epistles 6-8

Author(s): Nader El Bizri, Godefroid de Callataÿ
Published in: The Epistles of the Brethren of Purity, 2018, ISBN 978-0-19-881692-8
Publisher: Oxford University Press

Ibn Masarra: Early Philosophy and Theology in al-Andalus

Author(s): José Bellver
Published in: Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science, 2025
Publisher: Brill

Reconsidering the Influence of the Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ on Ibn al-Sīd al-Baṭalyawsī’s Kitāb al-Dawāʾir

Author(s): Godefroid de Callataÿ
Published in: Religious and Intellectual Diversity in the Islamicate World and Beyond Volume I, 2024, Page(s) 1:166-189, ISBN 978-90-04-68693-9
Publisher: Brill

Artificial creation of human life. Ibn Waḥšiyya as a source of the Futūḥāt al-makkiyya

Author(s): Michele Petrone
Published in: Folklore, Magic, and Witchcraft, 2021, Page(s) 5-19, ISBN 9781003095064
Publisher: Routledge

Laboratories and Technology: Alchemical Equipment in the Middle Ages

Author(s): Nicolas Thomas, Sébastien Moureau
Published in: Cultural History of Chemistry. Volume 2. Middle Ages, 2021, Page(s) 49–70, ISBN 9781474294546
Publisher: Bloomsbury

Alchemical Equipment

Author(s): Sébastien Moureau
Published in: Routledge Handbook on Science in the Islamicate World: Practices From the 8th to the 19th century, 2023, Page(s) 512-522, ISBN 9781138047594
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.4324/9781315170718-46

A Study of the Ikhwān al-Ṣafā’s Epistle on Magic, the Longer Version (52b)

Author(s): Liana Saif
Published in: Islamicate Occult Sciences in Theory and Practice, 2020, Page(s) 162–206, ISBN 978-90-04-42696-2
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/9789004426979_005

The Arabic Versions of Jābir b. Aflaḥ’s al-Kitāb fī l-Hayʾa

Author(s): José Bellver
Published in: Ptolemy’s Science of the Stars in the Middle Ages, 2020, Page(s) 181–199, ISBN 978-2-503-58639-7
Publisher: Brepols
DOI: 10.1484/m.pals-eb.5.120179

Sabians, the School of al-Kindī, and the Brethren of Purity

Author(s): Janne Mattila
Published in: Religious Identities in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: Walking Together & Parting Ways, 2021, Page(s) 92–114, ISBN 978-90-04-47115-3
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/9789004471160_006

The Influence of Andalusi Ṣūfism on the Central Islamicate World: Ibn Sabʿīn’s son and his Kitāb al-Sulūk fī ṭarīq al-qawm

Author(s): José Bellver
Published in: The Maghrib in the Mashriq Knowledge, Travel and Identity, 2021, Page(s) 371–398, ISBN 9783110712698
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/9783110713305-013

Introduction

Author(s): Liana Saif, Francesca Leoni
Published in: Islamicate Occult Sciences in Theory and Practice, 2021, ISBN 978-90-04-42696-2
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/9789004426979_002

The exception is music. From harmony to the occult arts in the reordering of the Brethren of Purity's Epistles 5 and 6

Author(s): Laura Tribuzio
Published in: Science and Craft: the Relations between the Theoretical and Practical Sides of the Occult Sciences in the Islamic world, 2025
Publisher: SISMEL - Edizioni del Galluzzo

The Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ on the Ṣūrat al-Arḍ: A Geography in Motion

Author(s): Godefroid de Callataÿ
Published in: Mastering Nature in the Medieval Arabic and Latin Worlds: Studies in Heritage and Transfer of Arabic Science in Honour of Charles Burnett, 2023, Page(s) 54-81, ISBN 978-2-503-60448-0
Publisher: Brepols
DOI: 10.1484/.cat-eb.5.134026

The Ikhwān al-Ṣafā’ on Angels and Spiritual Beings

Author(s): Godefroid de Callataÿ
Published in: The Intermediate World of Angels. Islamic Representations of Celestial Beings in Transcultural Contexts, Issue 2019 (Beiruter Texte und Studien, 114), 2019, Page(s) 347-364, ISBN 978-3-95650-623-9
Publisher: Ergon Verlag

Practice and Experiment: Alchemical Operations in the Middle Ages

Author(s): Sébastien Moureau, Nicolas Thomas
Published in: Cultural History of Chemistry. Volume 2. Middle Ages, 2021, Page(s) 35–47, ISBN 9781474294546
Publisher: Bloomsbury

Theory and Concepts: A Shared Heritage: Theorizing Alchemy in the Late Antique, Arabo-Muslim, and Latin Worlds

Author(s): Matteo Martelli, Sébastien Moureau, Jennifer Rampling
Published in: Cultural History of Chemistry. Volume 2. Middle Ages, 2021, Page(s) 19–34, ISBN 9781474294546
Publisher: Bloomsbury

Astrological and Prophetical Cycles in the Pseudo-Aristotelian Hermetica and other Islamic Esoterica

Author(s): Godefroid de Callataÿ, Liana Saif
Published in: Speculum Arabicum. Intersecting Perspectives on Medieval Encyclopaedism, 2021, Page(s) 67-82, ISBN 978-94-6451-922-8
Publisher: Brepols

The Reception of Ibn Masarra into Sufism

Author(s): José Bellver
Published in: Religious and Intellectual Diversity in the Islamicate World and Beyond. Essays in honor of Sarah Stroumsa, 2024, Page(s) 2:137–165, ISBN 978-90-04-68693-9
Publisher: Brill

Introduction

Author(s): Sébastien Moureau
Published in: Cultural History of Chemistry. Volume 2. Middle Ages, 2021, Page(s) 1–16, ISBN 9781474294546
Publisher: Bloomsbury

Qui accipit quod debet et miscet sicut debet, procedit inde quod debet procedere. » Les recettes alchimiques médiévales arabes et arabo-latines (IXe-XIIIe siècles)

Author(s): Sébastien Moureau
Published in: The Recipe from XIIth to XVIIth Centuries. Europe, Islam and Far East, 2023, Page(s) 149–167, ISBN 978-88-9290-262-6
Publisher: SISMEL - Edizioni del Galluzzo

Ascetics and Sufis

Author(s): José Bellver
Published in: The Routledge Handbook of Muslim Iberia, 2020, Page(s) 318-344, ISBN 9781032236490
Publisher: Routledge

The Animal Fable of the Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʼ in Context: The Ontological and Moral Status of Animals in Early Islamic Thought

Author(s): Janne Mattila
Published in: Animals and their Relation to Gods, Humans and Things in the Ancient World, 2019, Page(s) 345-366, ISBN 978-3-658-24387-6
Publisher: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-24388-3_15

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