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1 online resource. |
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Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section one, The Near and Middle East ; volume 120
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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. |
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Preface to the English Translation; Acknowledgments; List of Figures; Introduction; 1 Contemporary Historiography of Arab-Islamic Aesthetic Thought; a) Western Criticism; b) Arabic Criticism; 2 Aesthetic Theory and Arab Andalusi Aesthetics; Chapter 1 -- Beauty and the Arts in the Rise of Written Arabic Culture; 1.1 Pre-Islamic Sensibility and the Vocabulary of Aesthetics; 1.1.1 The Supernatural Origin of Artistic Creation; 1.1.2 The Physical and Luminous Character of Beauty in Pre-Islamic Poetry. Woman as an Aesthetic Object and Agent |
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1.1.3 The Arts and Architecture in Pre-Islamic Poetry1.2 The Great Message of Revelation and Its Aesthetic Dimension; 1.2.1 Beauty and Absolute Perfection in the Word and the Divine Order; a) The Inimitability of the Quran; b) The Creator; c) Creation; 1.2.2 Artistic Creation in the Sacred Texts; a) The Problem of Figurative Representation; b) Architecture and Sculpture in the Quran; c) Prophethood and Poetry; d) Music in the Ḥadīth; 1.2.3 The Development of the Arts under the New Politico-Religious Order of Islam |
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Chapter 2 -- The Arts on the Margins of Knowledge: Ideas and Concepts of Art in Classical Arab Culture2.1 The Arts in the Arab-Islamic Encyclopedia; 2.1.1 The Arts in the Classification of Knowledge in the East; 2.1.2 The Arts in the Classification of Knowledge in al-Andalus and the Maghrib; a) The Arts in the Ẓahiri System of Knowledge; b) Ibn Bājja: the Practical Arts and Classifications of Intellectual Knowledge in the Founding of Andalusi Falsafa; c) Ibn Ṭufayl's Self-Taught Philosopher: Man in a State of Nature Neither Produces nor Conceives of the Arts |
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D) The Arts and Knowledge in Ibn Rushd's Rationalist Schemee) The Arts in Ibn Khaldūn's Study of Society; 2.2 The Brethren of Purity's Neopythagorean and Neoplatonic Concepts of Art, and al-Tawḥīdī's School in Baghdad; 2.2.1 The Brethren of Purity's Pythagorean Theory of Art; a) The Geometric Order of the Universe; b) The Harmonious Concord of the Cosmos; c) Ideal Proportion, the Key to Artistic Perfection; d) The Manual Arts and Artistic Creativity; 2.2.2 The Aesthetic Neoplatonism of al-Tawḥīdī's School in Baghdad; a) Thought, Art, and Inspiration; b) Artistic Form and the Unicity of God |
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C) Artistic Creation as the Emanation of the Soul and the Perfection of Natured) The Nature of Beautiful Form; e) The Language Arts: Prose, Verse, and Rhetoric; f) Musical Harmony and Its Affinity with the Soul; f) Abū Ḥayyān Al-Tawḥīdī's Treatise on Calligraphy and the Foundations of the Genre in Arabic ; 2.3 Calligraphy among the Sciences of Language in Ibn al-Sīd of Badajoz; 2.4 Revelation, Morality, and Art in the Work of Ibn Ḥazm; 2.4.1 The Divine Origin of the Arts and their Human Transmission; 2.4.2 The Perfection and Immutable Order of Divine Creation |
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Aesthetics, Arab.
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Aesthetics, Arab. |
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Aesthetics, Arab -- Spain -- Andalusia.
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Spain -- Andalusia. |
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Arabic literature.
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Arabic literature. |
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PHILOSOPHY -- Metaphysics. |
| Added Author |
Lopez-Morillas, Consuelo, translator.
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Historia del pensamiento estético árabe. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2017074762
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Translation of: Puerta Vílchez, José Miguel. Historia del pensamiento estético árabe. Madrid, España : Ediciones Akal, ©1997 8446007371 (DLC) 98126175 (OCoLC)37898057 |
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Print version: Puerta Vílchez, José Miguel. Aesthetics in Arabic thought. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017 9789004344952 (DLC) 2017021453 |
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9789004345041 (electronic book) |
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9004345043 (electronic book) |
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9789004344952 |
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