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Beauty and Islam: Aesthetics in Islamic Art and Architecture

By Valerie Gonzalez

Book information

Publisher
I.B.Tauris
Year
2001
ISBN
9780755699353, 9781860646911
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1177399 bytes)
Pages
\146
Library
bloomsburycollections.com
Time added
2023-06-30 21:28:12

Description

Beauty and Islam’ explores aspects of aesthetics in classical Islamic thought in the light of contemporary theories, offering new perspectives on Islamic art and architecture with examples ranging from the Qur’an and the Alhambra to the works of present day artists and philosophers. Tracing the roots of Islamic aesthetics back to the works of the great philosophers of the Middle Ages such as Avicenna and Averroes, Valerie Gonzalez finds that aesthetic theory in Islam must be seen within the much wider context of parallel thinking on theology, ethics, physics and metaphysics.

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