Author(s): Muamer Halilović / Language(s): Serbian
Issue: 3/2016
In the X century, when numerous representatives of scientific and cultural
life of Muslims appeared, a secret philosophical-political group Ikhwan
al-Safa was formed whose members tried to ideologically oppose the central
caliphate leading political set. Believing that it is imperative that Muslim
society should move towards ideals established back in the VII century
the prophet Muhammad, and that Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates did
not advocate those ideals, they tried in their works – published under the
name of Rasa’il Ikhwan al-Safa (Epistles of the Brethren of Purity) – to clarify
in detail their philosophical, social and political attitudes. The Epistles
is an encyclopaedic review of almost all previously known scientific disciplines.
They are 51 or 52, if we count the last one that offers a short overview
of all the previous ones.
In their Epistles, the Ikhwan al-Safa representatives wrote about a variety
of scientific disciplines, such as philosophy, physics, astronomy, mathematics,
geometry and music. Still, they did not neglect social sciences, and they
extensively discussed the relationship between man and society, the role of
government in the community, the issues of social justice, of bliss, the relationship
between politics and religion, social life models, and many other
topics. In this article we will try to look at the basic features of their social
thought. It should be noted that the views of this group representatives
significantly influenced the development of various scientific disciplines in
Islam, and the way they worked had an impact on many theological branches
such as Ismaili Muslims. In fact, in the Ismaili fortresses of Gazarhan,
Lambasar, Shahdej, Tabas, and Qohestan, many historians have noted traces
of covert activities of the Ikhwan al-Safa group members.
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