Aesthetics in Arabic thought : from pre-Islamic Arabia through al-Andalus / / by José́ Miguel Puerta Vilchez ; translated from Spanish by Consuelo López-Morillas.

• Superior document: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section one, The Near and Middle East ; v. 120
• Author: Puerta Vílchez, José Miguel.
• TeilnehmendeR: López-Morillas, Consuelo.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2017]
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: Multiple; English; Spanish
• Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East 120.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (954 pages) :; illustrations.

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 ʿArabī, 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.

Table of Contents

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