On Composition and the Arts : An Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of Epistles 6-8

Bok av Ikhw an Al- Saf a
This volume presents three of the Epistles of the Brethren of Purity, a monumental work of medieval Islamic learning. These epistles explore applications of mathematics in music, medicine, and alchemy; scientific knowledge and the classification of sciences; and the place of the arts, industries, and trades in the Islamic cosmos.