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  "ar": "إخوان الصفا",
  "en": "Ikhwan al-Safa (Brethren of Purity)",
  "ur": "اخوان الصفا"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "إخوان الصفا جماعة أدبية وفلسفية في البصرة في القرن الرابع الهجري صاحبة رسائل إخوان الصفا إحدى وخمسين رسالة؛ يذكر الذهبي في سير أعلام النبلاء عكوف أبي حامد الغزالي عليها ونقاشه فيها {cite:siyar-alam-nubala-ideas-house}.",
  "en": "Ikhwan al-Safa was a literary-philosophical circle in fourth-century Basra, authors of the fifty-one Epistles of the Brethren of Purity; al-Dhahabi's Siyar records Abu Hamid al-Ghazali's engagement with the epistles and the debate around them {cite:siyar-alam-nubala-ideas-house}."
 },
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 ],
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 ],
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 "aliases": [],
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  "sects-and-schools",
  "spirituality-and-sufism"
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  "external_ids": {
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  },
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  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "wikidata-import deferred Q1995603; Siyar alam al-nubala Ikhwan al-Safa passages verified in OCR (lines 272817, 272984)",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 Medium)",
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  },
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 Medium)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "إخوان الصفا جماعة أدبية وفلسفية في البصرة في القرن الرابع الهجري، صاحبة رسائل إخوان الصفا، وهي إحدى وخمسون رسالة {cite:siyar-alam-nubala-ideas-house}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "في المصادر",
     "markdown": "يذكر الذهبي في سير أعلام النبلاء عكوف أبي حامد الغزالي على رسائل إخوان الصفا وشبكه بمذاهب الفلاسفة، ويصفها في سياقات أخرى بوصف القائلين بها {cite:siyar-alam-nubala-ideas-house}."
    }
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    "lang": "ar",
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    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-22"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Ikhwan al-Safa was a literary-philosophical circle in fourth-century Basra, authors of the fifty-one Epistles of the Brethren of Purity {cite:siyar-alam-nubala-ideas-house}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "In the sources",
     "markdown": "Al-Dhahabi's Siyar records Abu Hamid al-Ghazali's engagement with the epistles and his entanglement with the philosophers' doctrines, and describes the epistles elsewhere through their critics' words {cite:siyar-alam-nubala-ideas-house}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "group/ikhwan-al-safa",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2 Medium), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-22"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "اخوان الصفا چوتھی صدی ہجری کے بصرہ کا ادبی و فلسفیانہ حلقہ تھا، جس نے رسائل اخوان الصفا یعنی اکیاون رسائل تصنیف کیے {cite:siyar-alam-nubala-ideas-house}۔"
    },
    {
     "heading": "مآخذ میں",
     "markdown": "ذہبی کی سیر اعلام النبلاء ابو حامد غزالی کے رسائل سے عکوف اور مذاہبِ فلاسفہ سے الجھنے کا ذکر کرتی ہے، اور دوسرے مواقع پر رسائل کو ان کے ناقدین کے الفاظ سے بیان کرتی ہے {cite:siyar-alam-nubala-ideas-house}۔"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "group/ikhwan-al-safa",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2 Medium), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-22"
  }
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 "updated": "2026-10-22",
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  "group/bektashiyya",
  "group/chishtiyya",
  "group/shadhiliyya",
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  "building/imam-husayn-shrine",
  "concept/adab",
  "concept/ahl-al-ahwa",
  "concept/ahl-al-qibla"
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
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