TY - T1 - Microcosm-Macrocosm Analogy in Rasail Ikhwan as-Safa and Certain Related Texts SN - / UR - URN:ISBN:978-951-51-0239-3; http://hdl.handle.net/10138/136006 T3 - A1 - Nokso-Koivisto, Inka A2 - PB - Y1 - 2014 LA - en AB - The microcosm-macrocosm analogy – the idea of man as a miniature of the surrounding reality or part of it – is a prevailing theme in Rasail Ikhwan as-Safa. This study examines the analogy primarily in this encyclopaedia completed during the tenth century and compares the views presented in it to those in certain other texts from the ninth to the thirteenth centuries: Sirr al-khaliqa, some texts attributed to Jabir ibn Hayyan, some Sufi writings of al-Ghazali (d. 1111), Suhrawardi (d. 1191) and I... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - arabian kielen ja islamin tutkimus N1 - PP - ER -