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Knowledge and Beauty in Classical Islam; An Aesthetic Reading of the Muqaddima by Ibn Khaldūn

By Giovanna Lelli

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2021
ISBN
9780367898984, 9781003021902
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2483283 bytes)
Series
Routledge Studies in Islamic Philosophy
Pages
\187
Time added
2021-07-01 18:53:02
Ibn Khaldun

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Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface: The rationale and aims of the book Notes References Chapter 1: Ibn Khaldūn and hishistorical context Notes References Chapter 2: Beauty and knowledge: The meaning of ‘beauty’ (jamāl) and ‘knowledge’ (‘ilm) in the Muqaddima The meaning of beauty (jamāl) ‘Beauty’ with reference to vice and impiety Beauty with reference to the dynasties in decline Beauty with reference to musical harmony ‘Beauty’ with reference to rhetorical embellishments Knowledge as a primitive understanding of what is true, just and good The ‘knowledge’ of the advanced civilisations with a centralised State An unclassifiable science: history The knowledge of the Unseen (ghayb) Notes References Chapter 3: Knowledge and beauty in history: Epistemological beauty and phenomenological beauty in history Single events Notes References Chapter 4: Human geography and the Unseen world: Knowledge and beauty in human geography and in the perceptions of the Unseen (ghayb) Notes References Chapter 5: Bedouin society: Knowledge and beauty in the Bedouin society of Arab paganism (jāhiliyya) Ibn Khaldūn and Friedrich Nietzsche Ibn Khaldūn, Ferdowsi, ‘Omar Khayyām Notes References Chapter 6: The dawn of Islam: Knowledge and beauty at thedawn of Islam Prophetic inspiration as knowledge of an imaginative type Poetry as imaginative knowledge: the poetic models (asālīb) Dream visions as a trait d’union between poetry and prophecy The Poetics of the Qur’ān Notes References Chapter 7: Sedentary civilisation: The aesthetic State Knowledge and beauty in the sedentary civilisation The emblems (shārāt) of the aesthetic State Notes References Chapter 8: The Muqaddima as a tragedy Notes References Bibliography Index

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