José Miguel Puerta-Vilchez

Broschiertes Buch

Aesthetics in Arabic Thought

Beschreibung

Aesthetics in Arabic Thought from Pre-Islamic Arabia through al-Andalus offers a history of aesthetic thought in the Arabic language from the pre-Islamic period to the Alhambra, with special attention to the great Arab philosophers of the Middle East and al-Andalus.

Autor

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 Ḥazm of Cordoba" in Ibn Ḥazm 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)."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: de Gruyter Brill
• Seitenzahl: 954
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 155mm x 51mm
• Gewicht: 1362g
• ISBN-13: 9789004695979
• ISBN-10: 9004695974
• Artikelnr.: 69727109