The Ikhwan al-Safa and the Question of the Plurality of Opinions and Doctrines in their Age: Reasons for Human Differences a

Abstract

In the fourth century AH/tenth century AD the Epistles of the Ikhwan al-Safa spread. Book dealers had them copied and sold and distributed them in bookshops and the streets. At that time the epistles caused a knowledge shock. They included a synthesis between religion and philosophy and aspired to the unification of religions and doctrines and sought to reproduce a system that combined different opinions and beliefs under a single ideological umbrella.