The Epistles of Wisdom رَسَائِل ٱلْحِكْمَة Rasāʾil al-Ḥikma
The Druze Faith
Author
Hamza ibn Ali ibn Ahmad, Isma'il ibn Muhammad al-Tamimi Baha al-Din al-Muqtana
Original title
Rasa'il al-Hikmah, al-Hikmah al-Sharifah, Kitab al-Hikmah
Translator
Antoine Isaac, Baron Silvestre de Sacy, Daniel De Smet
Country
Middle East
Language
Arabic
Genre
Religious book
Publisher
al-Sayyid al-Tanukhi in c. 1479
Publication date
from c. 1017 till c. 1043
Published in English
N/A
Media type
Book
Pages
N/A
ISBN
978-90-429-1943-3
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The Epistles of Wisdom (Arabic: رَسَائِل ٱلْحِكْمَة, romanized: Rasāʾil al-Ḥikma) is a corpus of sacred texts and pastoral letters by teachers of the Druze faith native to the Levant, which has currently close to a million practitioners.[1] The text revolves around the acknowledgement and worship of al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah as the last and definite incarnation of the One God, a belief which Druze define as 'Monotheism' (Arabic: Tawhid).[2][3][4][5]
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^Dana, N. (2010). The'Banu Ma'ruf'of the Levant–Druze Identity and Religion.
^Monaghan, Sean (2006-04-01). "The Druze in the Middle East". American Journal of Islam and Society. 23 (2): 121–123. doi:10.35632/ajis.v23i2.1633. ISSN 2690-3741.
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