
6 De Callataÿ, “Magia en al-Andalus: Rasā ʾ il Ijwān al- Ṣ afā ʾ, Rutbat al- ḥ akim y Gāyat al- ḥ akim ( Picat (.).5 Among many, de Callataÿ, Ikhwan al-Safa’, p. 44 and p. 75.4 Diwald, Arabische Philosophie und Wissenschaft in der Enzyklopädie, p. 10‒11 Hamdani, “Abū Ḥayyan (.).3 For a Šīʿa allegiance, see de Callataÿ, Ikhwan al-Safa ʾ, p. XI for a Qarmatian affiliation, see W (.).The Editorial Policy: Its Presupposition … and Its Self-Realization a. BCB names Bombay/Cairo/Beirut editions, considering that the second and the third are based only on the first. How should we assess it? Does it “render service to the academic community and lay a scholarly foundation for further studies dedicated to the Brethren’s corpus” as El Bizri asserts in the foreword of each volume? Does the London edition offer a very different text in comparison to the former ones? Does it solve any hermeneutic problem? Does it create new ones? Does it even respect the nature of the text?ĤIn this study, we will discuss the general policy of the project, analyze the already published volumes of the series, then go back to the main manuscript, Atif Effendi 1681, for a comparative study with the Beirut edition.ĥReferences to texts are based on the following abbreviations: the Beirut edition: volume ‒ page (for instance, I 99) the London edition: Arabic edition or English translation – page (for instance Arab. So, we can take a first look at the new version of the Rasā ʾ il I ḫ wān al- Ṣ afā.
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An impressive board with major scholars was constituted, most of the existing manuscripts were gathered and analyzed, 2 a group of more than twenty-five scholars was commissioned to work on the edition and the translation with full freedom of research.ģTo date (December 2017), twelve volumes containing thirty of the fifty-two epistles have been published.
2 However, Mourad Kacimi noticed that an important manuscript from the Bibliothèque Nationale du Roy (.)ĢThe Institute of Ismaili Studies provided all the means to accomplish this task seriously. Acritical edition and its translation were therefore required. A partial translation in German by Diwald, and excerpts in Italian, French, and English were made, but no complete translation appeared in any European language. Concerning the translations, two paraphrases were available, one in German by Dieterici, and the other in Italian by Bausani. The Bombay edition transcribed a hidden manuscript, and the editions of Cairo and Beirut transcribed Bombay’s edition, merely adding some grammatical corrections. Three complete editions of the text had been published before (Bombay 1887, Cairo 1928, Beirut 1957) but none of them was based on a critical study of the manuscripts. This is one of the major works regarding Islamic philosophy in this emerging century. 1 We model our translation of I ḫ wān al- Ṣ afā on the expression “brethren in faith”.ġIn 2008, the Institute of Ismaili Studies initiated the project of a critical edition and an English translation of the Rasā ʾ il I ḫ wān al- Ṣ afā. He was accepted by all schools of Buddhism and is still the only bodhisattva generally honored by the Theravada tradition. Maitreya is the earliest Bodhisattva around whom a cult developed and is mentioned in scriptures from the 3rd century CE. Maitreya, in the Buddhist tradition, the future Buddha, presently a bodhisattva residing in the Tushita heaven, who will descend to earth to preach the dharma (“law”) anew when the teachings of Gautama Buddha have entirely decayed. Material: 24K Gold Gilded, Copper Body, Acrylic Paintings This statue has accurate traditional iconography and fine details and will be a perfect addition to shrine to a devotee like you from Nepal. Precious stones and gems are set into the lotus, robe and the lotus seat. Each of his hands holds a lotus stem that reaches the statue's rear and represents his might and purity. Here the deity is depicted seated on a moon disc lotus with both hands in the Dharmachakra Mudra-the gesture of instructing and rotating the Wheel of Dharma-held at the level of his heart. We have also used acrylic paintings to highlight the facial expression of the deity.
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