Iḵẖwanu-ṣ-safā, or Brothers of purity / translated from the Hindūstānī of Ikrām 'Alī, by John Platts; carried through tne press by Edward B. Eastwick.

  • Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʼ.
Date:
1875
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Credit: Iḵẖwanu-ṣ-safā, or Brothers of purity / translated from the Hindūstānī of Ikrām 'Alī, by John Platts; carried through tne press by Edward B. Eastwick. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and for the Examination for a Certificate of High Proficiency in Urdu.” It was, therefore, judged that a careful translation of it into English would prove of the highest utility to students. In undertaking this translation, I have steadily endeavoured to keep two objects in view: 1st. To facilitate the study of the original; 2nd. To produce a work which might be perused and appreciated by such readers as possess no knowledge of Urdu, for the interest of the story itself. The text of the Urdu Translator has therefore been rendered throughout as closely as is consistent with intelligibility, and due regard to the idiom of the English tongue. As an additional aid to accuracy, I have in the course of translating compared the Urdu with the original Arabic, page by page, throughout. This has not only afforded me a clear insight into the real meaning of many a doubtful passage, but it has enabled me to detect many important errors in the Urdu translation—errors which disfigure the work to a degree that makes it extremely desirable that it should be subjected to careful revision and correction. The truth is, that Maulavi Ikram ’All’s knowledge