Aesthetics in Arabic thought : from pre-Islamic Arabia through al-Andalus / by José́ Miguel Puerta Vilchez ; translated from Spanish by Consuelo López-Morillas.
| Author/creator |
Puerta Vílchez, José Miguel |
| Other author/creator | López-Morillas, Consuelo. |
| Format | Electronic and Book |
| Publication Info | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017] |
| Description | xvii, 936 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
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| Uniform title | Historia del pensamiento estético árabe. English |
| Series | Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section one, The Near and Middle East ; volume 120 Handbook of Oriental studies. Section one, Near and Middle East (2014) ; v. 120. UNAUTHORIZED |
| Abstract | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 855-883) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Translated as | Translation of: Puerta Vílchez, José Miguel. Historia del pensamiento estético árabe. Madrid, España : Ediciones Akal, ©1997 8446007371 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2017021453 |
| ISBN | 9789004344952 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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