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 palac...

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Main Author: Puerta Vílchez, José Miguel.

Other Authors: López-Morillas, Consuelo.

Format: eBook

Language: Multiple
English
Spanish

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]

Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East 120.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2017, ISBN: 9789004325999.

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Call Number: BH221.A65 P8413 2017

Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
  • José Miguel Puerta Vílchez and Consuelo López-Morillas
  • Introduction /
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  • 1 Beauty and the Arts in the Rise of Written Arabic Culture /
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  • 2 The Arts on the Margins of Knowledge: Ideas and Concepts of Art in Classical Arab Culture /
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  • 3 Aesthetic Perception and the Definition of Beauty in Classical Arabic Thought /
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  • Conclusion /
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  • Bibliography of Primary Sources /
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  • Bibliography of Secondary Sources /
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  • Index /
  • José Miguel Puerta Vílchez and Consuelo López-Morillas.