Puerta Vílchez, José Miguel
Aesthetics in Arabic thought : from pre-Islamic Arabia through al-Andalus by José́ Miguel Puerta Vilchez ; translated from Spanish by Consuelo López-Morillas. - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017. - xvii, 936 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. - Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section one, The Near and Middle East ; 120 . - Handbook of Oriental studies .
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 ʻArabī, 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.
9789004344952
2017021453
Aesthetics, Arab
Aesthetics, Arab--Spain--Andalusia
Arabic literature
111.85089927 PU AE
Aesthetics in Arabic thought : from pre-Islamic Arabia through al-Andalus by José́ Miguel Puerta Vilchez ; translated from Spanish by Consuelo López-Morillas. - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017. - xvii, 936 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. - Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section one, The Near and Middle East ; 120 . - Handbook of Oriental studies .
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 ʻArabī, 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.
9789004344952
2017021453
Aesthetics, Arab
Aesthetics, Arab--Spain--Andalusia
Arabic literature
111.85089927 PU AE