Aesthetics in Arabic Thought: From Pre-Islamic Arabia Through Al-Andalus - Paperback
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Availability:In StockSeries:Handbook of Oriental Studies: Section 1; The Near and Middle EastPublish date:2024-03-26Pages:954
Languages:EnglishPublisher:BrillISBN-13:9789004695979ISBN-10:9004695974UPC:9789004695979Book Category:Art, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:History, AestheticsSize:9.22 x 6.22 x 1.94 inchesWeight:2.96Product ID:SCDZAVFYCC
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 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.
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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:BrillISBN-13:9789004695979ISBN-10:9004695974UPC:9789004695979Book Category:Art, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:History, AestheticsSize:9.22 x 6.22 x 1.94 inchesWeight:2.96Product ID:SCDZAVFYCC
J.M. Puerta Vílchez is Professor of Islamic Art and Aesthetics at the University of Granada. His publications include La aventura del cálamo. Historia, formas y artistas de la caligrafía árabe (2007), Leer la Alhambra (2010), The Poetics of Water in Islam (2011), and The Artistic Sense of Qurtuba (2015), as well as "Art and Aesthetics in the Work of Ibn Ḥazm of Cordoba" in Ibn Ḥazm of Cordoba, ed. C. Adang, M. Fierro and S. Schmidtke (Leiden: Brill, 2012). He co-directed the Biblioteca de al-Andalus (9 vols., 2003-2013) and curated the exhibit "Arts and cultures in al-Andalus. The power of Alhambra (2013-2014)."
Publisher: Brill
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