‘The Missing Link?: MS 1040: An Important Copy of the Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-ṢafāʾFrom Arabic, lit. ‘Brethren of Purity’, a group of learned scholars who were based in Basra and Baghdad around the last quarter of the t10th century CE. It is more… in the Collection of The Institute of Ismaili Studies’ in Texts, Scribes and Transmission: Manuscript Cultures of the Ismaili Communities and Beyond, ed. Wafi Momin (London: IB Tauris, 2022), pp. 81-136.
Citational Exegesis of the Qur’an: Towards a Theoretical Framework for the Construction of Meaning in Classical Islamic Thought. The Case of the Epistles of the Pure Brethren (Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ)’, in The Construction of Belief: Reflections on the Thought of Mohammed Arkoun, ed. Abdou Filali-Ansary and Aziz Esmail (London: Saqi Books, 2012), pp. 168-193.
‘Introduction: A Biographical Sketch’ [of Farhad Daftary] in Fortresses of the intellect, ed. Omar Alí-de-Unzaga (2011), pp. 1-32
Articles
The conversation between Moses and God (munāg āt Mūsā) in the Epistles of the Pure Brethren (Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ) in Al-Kitâb: La sacralité du texte dans le monde de l’islam, ed. Daniel De Smet, Godefroid de Callataÿ and Jan Van Reeth, Acta Orientalia Belgica. Subsidia Analecta III (2004), pp. 371-387.
‘Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ’ in Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. Volume 2 (900-1050) ed. David Thomas and Alex Mallett with Juan Pedro Monferrer Sala Johannes Pahlitzsch, Mark Swanson, Herman Teule and John Tolan (Leiden: Brill, 2010), pp. 306-311.
Encyclopaedia Articles
“Brethren of Purity’, in The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought, ed. Patricia Crone, Madad Kadi, Devin J. Stewart, Muhammad Qasim Zaman, Mahan Mirza (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013), pp. 73-74.
Book Reviews
Review of Walid Saleh, The Classical Tafsīr Tradition: the Qurʾān Commentary of al-Thaʿlabī (d. 427/1035) (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2004), Journal of Qur’anic Studies 8 (i), pp. 119-125.
Thesis
The Use of the Qurʹān in the Epistles of the Pure Brethren (Rasāʹil Ikhwān Al-Ṣafāʹ). University of Cambridge, 2005.
