Beauty in Arabic Culture (Princeton Series on the Middle East)
1st American Ed edition
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Word Count
55,000 words, Guess
Page Count
220 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL8608116M
- ISBN-139781558761995
- ISBN-101558761993
- OCLC Control Number224697736
- OCLC Control Numberbeautyinarabiccu0000behr
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number98043118
- LibraryThing2188718
- Goodreads598870
Classifications
- LCCBH221.A65 B3413 1999
Description
"Doris Behrens-Abouseif's book provides a panorama of the concepts of beauty in classical and post-classical Arabic culture through the 15th century, drawing on Arabic texts from philosophy, theology, mysticism, poetry, and literary criticism as well as historiographic sources and tales from the Thousand and One Nights. Behrens-Abouseif elucidates the ways in which beauty was measured by the degree of pleasure it elicited in the recipient, an attitude that anticipates modernity in both East and West."--BOOK JACKET.
First Sentence
The Encyclopaedia of Islam includes an entry under the heading "ilm al-djamal" (the modern Arabic equivalent of aesthetics), in which we read that a general theory on aesthetics and "precise definitions for the terms used in this field are lacking in the history of Arabic civilization."
Excerpt
The Encyclopaedia of Islam includes an entry under the heading "ilm al-djamal" (the modern Arabic equivalent of aesthetics), in which we read that a general theory on aesthetics and "precise definitions for the terms used in this field are lacking in the history of Arabic civilization."
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- Beauty in Arabic Culture (Princeton Series on the Middle East)
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