by José́ Miguel Puerta Vilchez ; translated from Spanish by Consuelo López-Morillas.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Boston :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Brill,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
[2017]
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xvii, 936 pages :
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color illustrations ;
Dimensions
25 cm.
SERIES
Series Title
Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section one, The Near and Middle East ;
Volume Designation
volume 120
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 855-883) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction -- Beauty and the Arts in the Rise of Written Arabic Culture -- The Arts on the Margins of Knowledge: Ideas and Concepts of Art in Classical and Arab Culture -- Aesthetic Perception abd the Definition of Beauty in Classical Arabic Thought -- Conclusion.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.