Aesthetics in Arabic thought : from pre-Islamic Arabia through al-Andalus
By: Puerta Vílchez, José Miguel
Title By: López-Morillas, Consuelo [Translated by]
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BookSeries: Handbook of Oriental studiesPublisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017.Description: xvii, 936 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9789004344952Subject(s): Aesthetics, Arab | Aesthetics, Arab -- Spain -- Andalusia | Arabic literatureDDC classification: 111.85089927 PU AE Online resources: Location Map | Item type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| 109.22 PH IL Philosophers : | 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 : |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 855-883) and index.
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.