| Aesthetics in Arabic Thought: From Pre-Islamic Arabia Through Al-Andalus Contributor(s): Puerta-Vilchez, José Miguel (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004344950 ISBN-13: 9789004344952 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $270.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | History - General - Philosophy | Aesthetics |
| Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies: Section 1; The Near and Middle East |
| Physical Information: 2.2" H x 6.1" W x 9.3" (2.80 lbs) 954 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Aesthetics in Arabic Thought from Pre-Islamic Arabia through al-Andalus Jos Miguel Puerta V lchez 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. |