A book titled for these people argues that those who hold the standard of burhân are actually uncritically following taqlîd. A secret society of these people in Basra was called the Brethren of Purity. A book titled for these people argues that when a piece of cotton is brought to a flame, God itself burns the cotton and not the (15[1])fire. A book titled for these people prompted a rebuttal defending the Asharites titled The (*) Incoherence of the (10[3])Incoherence. The works of ancient examples of these people, including a man called the “First Teacher,” were translated by al-Kindi at the House of Wisdom, making works like the Organon available in Arabic along with Greek medical and scientific texts. For 10 points, name this primary profession of Muslim Golden Age figures like al-Farabi, Avicenna and Averroes. ■END■