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Language Between God and the Poets: Ma'na in the Eleventh Century Volume 2

Language Between God and the Poets: Ma'na in the Eleventh Century Volume 2 - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Alexander KeySeries:Berkeley Postclassical Islamic Scholarship #2Publish date:2018-08-28Pages:296
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520298019ISBN-10:520298012UPC:9780520298019Book Category:Language Arts & Disciplines, Religion, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Translating & Interpreting, Islam, History & SurveysBook Topic:Theology, MedievalSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.67 inchesWeight:0.97Product ID:SCW2CDK57B
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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 on 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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520298019ISBN-10:520298012UPC:9780520298019Book Category:Language Arts & Disciplines, Religion, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Translating & Interpreting, Islam, History & SurveysBook Topic:Theology, MedievalSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.67 inchesWeight:0.97Product ID:SCW2CDK57B

Alexander Key is Assistant Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature in the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages at Stanford University.


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