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  • The scientific-philosophical Arabo-Islamic encyclopedia bearing the title Epistles of the Brethren of Purity and of the Lovers of Faith (Rasa'il ikhwan al-safa™ wa-khullan al-wafa™), which includes 52 treatises about mathematical sciences, logic, physical sciences, metaphysics, anthropology, and theology, had a relevant, although unexpected and not usually studied influence on Medieval Judaic thought in the 11th-15th centuries in Spain and Provence, and in Yemen as well.

    Influence of Arabic and Islamic Philosophy on Judaic Thought Zonta, Mauro 2007

  • What had been chaotic conflicts of all against all became battles between the ikhwan and those who resisted its influence.

    The J Curve Ian Bremmer 2006

  • Saud sent out members of the ikhwan as his emissaries to the various tribal settlements to win their loyalty to him and to a Wahhabi interpretation of Islamic practice.

    The J Curve Ian Bremmer 2006

  • Saud sent out members of the ikhwan as his emissaries to the various tribal settlements to win their loyalty to him and to a Wahhabi interpretation of Islamic practice.

    The J Curve Ian Bremmer 2006

  • What had been chaotic conflicts of all against all became battles between the ikhwan and those who resisted its influence.

    The J Curve Ian Bremmer 2006

  • What had been chaotic conflicts of all against all became battles between the ikhwan and those who resisted its influence.

    The J Curve Ian Bremmer 2006

  • What had been chaotic conflicts of all against all became battles between the ikhwan and those who resisted its influence.

    The J Curve Ian Bremmer 2006

  • Saud sent out members of the ikhwan as his emissaries to the various tribal settlements to win their loyalty to him and to a Wahhabi interpretation of Islamic practice.

    The J Curve Ian Bremmer 2006

  • Saud sent out members of the ikhwan as his emissaries to the various tribal settlements to win their loyalty to him and to a Wahhabi interpretation of Islamic practice.

    The J Curve Ian Bremmer 2006

  • Why are so many liberal Democrats reluctant to concede that there is an intricate international network of ideological gangsters who recognize each other as ikhwan?

    The New Republic - All Feed Marty Peretz 2010

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