Rereading and interpreting the ideas of leading Muslim thinkers
Yahya Bouzarinejad; majid ahmadpour
Abstract
Attention to architecture in the thought of Akhwan al-Safa is based on the recognition of the place of geometry and numbers in their intellectual system. Akhwan al-Safa believes that geometry and numbers have priority over all other sciences. Their approach to geometry and architecture is such that it ...
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Attention to architecture in the thought of Akhwan al-Safa is based on the recognition of the place of geometry and numbers in their intellectual system. Akhwan al-Safa believes that geometry and numbers have priority over all other sciences. Their approach to geometry and architecture is such that it gives an identity of It is considered to be the accessories of their thought, therefore it is placed in the opposite point of modern and postmodern architecture, which, relying on the foundations of positivist philosophy, create works whose identity is obvious. propose that it displays the function of inducing pure mystical concepts such as the annihilation of multitudes in unity, and in the form of a symbolic language, conveys high Islamic concepts, some geometric shapes and some numbers in the intellectual system of the Brotherhood have a special value and property The forms do not have this characteristic, in the upcoming research, the criteria of Islamic architecture will be examined first, and then the Brotherhood's thought will be investigated and a correlation between the Brotherhood's thought and Islamic architecture will be made, in this research, with the descriptive and analytical method of library sources, The works of Akhwan al-Safa will be examined and the research questions will be answered.
