Epistles of Wisdom

The Epistles of Wisdom
رَسَائِل ٱلْحِكْمَة
Rasāʾil al-Ḥikma
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ReligionDruze
AuthorHamza ibn Ali ibn Ahmad
Isma'il ibn Muhammad al-Tamimi
Baha al-Din al-Muqtana
LanguageArabic
Periodc. 1017 – c. 1043

The Epistles of Wisdom (Arabic: رَسَائِل ٱلْحِكْمَة, romanizedRasāʾil 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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