Scientific Aspects in the Thought of the Brothers of Safa

Abstract

Al-Safa Brothers are a philosophical group that appeared in the fourth century AH. They gathered and wrote fifty-two treatises in various scientific and philosophical fields known as the letters of Al-safa Brothers and during the death they are considered a continuation or a complement to all human knowledge and sciences of their time. The scientific aspect represents the most important thing in these letters, which is the subject of research that focused on their classification of the sciences and their views in the mathematical sciences in terms of number, geometry, and music, and a statement of the most important findings in astronomy, the study of planets and stars and their movement, and their explanation of the most important physical concepts of place, movement, stillness and time, their views in the science of chemistry and their talk about metallic elements and their types and their formal and internal transformations that lead to the emergence of elements  Worthy of their action and their statement in other chemical processes in which they approached the modern results of these sciences down to the most important thing in the scientific aspects of their messages, which is their statement of the process of creating organisms that alternate in time from the lowest to the highest and the precise connection between these organisms according to a series of evolution linking the lower ones with the higher ones.  On their knowledge of the roots of the process of evolution and elevation of organisms, which later became one of the most important theories in modern science. 

Keywords

• ikhwan al-safa
• classification of sciences
• planets
• chemistry
• creation process