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Beauty in Arabic Culture (Hardcover, illustrated Edition)
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Beauty in Arabic Culture (Hardcover, illustrated Edition)
Series: Princeton series on the Middle East
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Although beauty, in the pre-modern Arab world, was enjoyed and
promoted almost everywhere, Islam does not possess a general theory
on aesthetics or a systematic theory of the arts. This is a study
of the Arabic discourse on beauty. The author had to search for her
evidence in written statements from a wide variety of sources, such
as the Qur'an, legal, religious and Sufi texts, chronicles,
biographies, belle-lettres, literary criticism, and scientific,
geographic and philosophical literature. The result is a compendium
of references to beauty in chapters on the Religious Approach,
Secular Beauty and Love, Music and Belle-Lettres, and the Visual
Arts. This approach is informative and provocative. For the
generalist, it provides comparative material for an understanding
of the early Arab cultural context. For the specialist, it raises
questions of sponsorship and purpose.
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