In Aesthetics in Arabic Thought from Pre-Islamic Arabia through al-Andalus Jose Miguel Puerta Vilchez 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 Hazm, Avempace, Ibn Tufayl, Averroes, Ibn 'Arabi, and Ibn Khaldun in al-Andalus, and the Brethren of Purity, al-Tawhidi, al-Farabi, Avicenna, Alhazen, and al-Ghazali 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.
- ISBN10 9004344950
- ISBN13 9789004344952
- Publish Date 21 June 2017
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country NL
- Imprint Brill
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 936
- Language English
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