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Language between God and the poets : ma'ná in the eleventh century

Key, Alexander (Alexander Matthew), author

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\"In the Arabic eleventh century, scholars were intensely preoccupied with the way that language generated truth and beauty. Their work in poetics, logic, theology, and lexicography defined the intellectual space between God and the poets. In Language Between God and the Poets, Alexander Key argues that ar-Raghib al-Isfahani, Ibn Furak, Ibn Sina (Avicenna), and Abd al-Qahir al-Jurjani shared a conceptual vocabulary based around the words ma'na and haqiqah. They used this vocabulary to build theories of language, mind, and reality that answered perennial questions: how to structure language and reference, how to describe God, how to construct logical arguments, and how to explain poetic affect.\"--Provided by publisher

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Subject: Islamic philosophy 11th century. / Islamic poetry 11th century. / Arabic language Religious aspects Islam.
• ISBN: 9780520298019

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
B741.K4338 2018	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE