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Aesthetics in Arabic thought : from pre-Islamic Arabia through al-Andalus /
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 pal...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Español |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2017.
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| Colección: | Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section one, The Near and Middle East ;
volume 120 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface to the English Translation; Acknowledgments; List of Figures; Introduction; 1 Contemporary Historiography of Arab-Islamic Aesthetic Thought; a) Western Criticism; b) Arabic Criticism; 2 Aesthetic Theory and Arab Andalusi Aesthetics; Chapter 1
- Beauty and the Arts in the Rise of Written Arabic Culture; 1.1 Pre-Islamic Sensibility and the Vocabulary of Aesthetics; 1.1.1 The Supernatural Origin of Artistic Creation; 1.1.2 The Physical and Luminous Character of Beauty in Pre-Islamic Poetry. Woman as an Aesthetic Object and Agent
- 1.1.3 The Arts and Architecture in Pre-Islamic Poetry1.2 The Great Message of Revelation and Its Aesthetic Dimension; 1.2.1 Beauty and Absolute Perfection in the Word and the Divine Order; a) The Inimitability of the Quran; b) The Creator; c) Creation; 1.2.2 Artistic Creation in the Sacred Texts; a) The Problem of Figurative Representation; b) Architecture and Sculpture in the Quran; c) Prophethood and Poetry; d) Music in the Ḥadīth; 1.2.3 The Development of the Arts under the New Politico-Religious Order of Islam
- Chapter 2
- The Arts on the Margins of Knowledge: Ideas and Concepts of Art in Classical Arab Culture2.1 The Arts in the Arab-Islamic Encyclopedia; 2.1.1 The Arts in the Classification of Knowledge in the East; 2.1.2 The Arts in the Classification of Knowledge in al-Andalus and the Maghrib; a) The Arts in the Ẓahiri System of Knowledge; b) Ibn Bājja: the Practical Arts and Classifications of Intellectual Knowledge in the Founding of Andalusi Falsafa; c) Ibn Ṭufayl's Self-Taught Philosopher: Man in a State of Nature Neither Produces nor Conceives of the Arts
- D) The Arts and Knowledge in Ibn Rushd's Rationalist Schemee) The Arts in Ibn Khaldūn's Study of Society; 2.2 The Brethren of Purity's Neopythagorean and Neoplatonic Concepts of Art, and al-Tawḥīdī's School in Baghdad; 2.2.1 The Brethren of Purity's Pythagorean Theory of Art; a) The Geometric Order of the Universe; b) The Harmonious Concord of the Cosmos; c) Ideal Proportion, the Key to Artistic Perfection; d) The Manual Arts and Artistic Creativity; 2.2.2 The Aesthetic Neoplatonism of al-Tawḥīdī's School in Baghdad; a) Thought, Art, and Inspiration; b) Artistic Form and the Unicity of God
- C) Artistic Creation as the Emanation of the Soul and the Perfection of Natured) The Nature of Beautiful Form; e) The Language Arts: Prose, Verse, and Rhetoric; f) Musical Harmony and Its Affinity with the Soul; f) Abū Ḥayyān Al-Tawḥīdī's Treatise on Calligraphy and the Foundations of the Genre in Arabic ; 2.3 Calligraphy among the Sciences of Language in Ibn al-Sīd of Badajoz; 2.4 Revelation, Morality, and Art in the Work of Ibn Ḥazm; 2.4.1 The Divine Origin of the Arts and their Human Transmission; 2.4.2 The Perfection and Immutable Order of Divine Creation