Beauty in Arabic culture
By: Behrens-Abouseif, Doris
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BookPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Markus Wiener Publishers, 1999.Description: viii, 220 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781558761995Subject(s): Aesthetics, Arab | Civilization, Arab | Islamic civilizationDDC classification: 111.8509174927 BE BE Online resources: Location Map | Item type | Home library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| REGULAR | University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection | 111.8509174927 BE BE (Browse shelf) | Available | July2018 | T0057558 |
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| 110 UN EM Empty ideas : | 111.85 SE AR The artist in crisis : | 111.85089927 PU AE Aesthetics in Arabic thought : | 111.8509174927 BE BE Beauty in Arabic culture | 111.85092 KI SE The seventh sense : | 113 GL IM Imperfect creation : | 113 KR BE Before the beginning, during the middle, after the end : |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-207) and index.
Although beauty, in the pre-modern Arab world, was enjoyed and promoted almost everywhere, Islam does not possess a general theory on aesthetics or a systematic theory of the arts. This is a study of the Arabic discourse on beauty. The author had to search for her evidence in written statements from a wide variety of sources, such as the Qur'an, legal, religious and Sufi texts, chronicles, biographies, belle-lettres, literary criticism, and scientific, geographic and philosophical literature. The result is a compendium of references to beauty in chapters on the Religious Approach, Secular Beauty and Love, Music and Belle-Lettres, and the Visual Arts. This approach is informative and provocative. For the generalist, it provides comparative material for an understanding of the early Arab cultural context. For the specialist, it raises questions of sponsorship and purpose.