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Aesthetics in Arabic thought from pre-Islamic Arabia through al-Andalus

Puerta Vílchez, José Miguel author, Puerta Vílchez, José Miguel. Historia del pensamiento estético árabe, López-Morillas, Consuelo translator

2017

Overview

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.

• Publisher: Brill
• Subject: Aesthetics, Arab / Aesthetics, Arab Spain Andalusia / Arabic literature History and criticism
• ISBN: 9789004344952, 978904345041

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
BH 221 .A65 P8413 2017	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE