Aesthetics in Arabic Thought

From Pre-Islamic Arabia Through Al-Andalus
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-69597-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 936 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 1362 g

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 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Puerta-Vilchez, José Miguel

Weitere Mitwirkende

López-Morillas, Consuelo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik

Über Autor(innen)

J.M. Puerta Vílchez is Professor of Islamic Art and Aesthetics at the University of Granada. His publications include La aventura del cálamo. Historia, formas y artistas de la caligrafía árabe (2007), Leer la Alhambra (2010), The Poetics of Water in Islam (2011), and The Artistic Sense of Qurtuba (2015), as well as “Art and Aesthetics in the Work of Ibn Hazm of Cordoba” in Ibn Hazm of Cordoba, ed. C. Adang, M. Fierro and S. Schmidtke (Leiden: Brill, 2012). He co-directed the Biblioteca de al-Andalus (9 vols., 2003-2013) and curated the exhibit “Arts and cultures in al-Andalus. The power of Alhambra (2013-2014).”