Publication

2017-06-21 - Brill

Language

English

Word Count

234,000 words, Guess

Page Count

936 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

  • ISBN-109004344950
  • ISBN-139789004344952
  • Library of Congress Control Number2017021453
  • OCLC Control Number989811309
  • Better World Books9789004344952
and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCBH221.A65P8413 2017
  • LCCBH221.A65 P8413 2017

Description

"In Aesthetics in Arabic Thought from Pre-Islamic Arabia through al-Andalus José Miguel Puerta Vílchez analyzes the discourses about beauty, the arts, and sense perception that arose within classical Arab culture from pre-Islamic poetry and the Quran (sixth-seventh centuries CE) to the Alhambra palace in Granada (fourteenth century CE). He focuses on the contributions of such great thinkers as Ibn Ḥazm, Avempace, Ibn Ṭufayl, Averroes, Ibn ʿArabī, and Ibn Khaldūn in al-Andalus, and the Brethren of Purity, al-Tawḥīdī, al-Fārābī, Avicenna, Alhazen, and al-Ghazālī in the East. The work also explores literary criticism, calligraphy, music, belles-lettres (adab), and erotic literature, and highlights the contribution of Arab humanism to shaping the field of Aesthetics in the West."--

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  • Aesthetics in Arabic Thought: From Pre-Islamic Arabia Through Al-AndalusHardcoverBrill2017-06-21

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