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Item specifics
- Condition
- Book Title
- Beauty in Arabic Culture (Princeton Series on the
- ISBN
- 9781558761995
- Publication Year
- 1999
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Subject Area
- Health & Fitness, Social Science
- Publication Name
- Beauty in Arabic Culture
- Publisher
- Wiener Publishers, Incorporated, Markus
- Subject
- Beauty & Grooming, Customs & Traditions
- Item Weight
- 12.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 268 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Wiener Publishers, Incorporated, Markus
ISBN-10
1558761993
ISBN-13
9781558761995
eBay Product ID (ePID)
385859
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
268 Pages
Publication Name
Beauty in Arabic Culture
Language
English
Publication Year
1999
Subject
Beauty & Grooming, Customs & Traditions
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Health & Fitness, Social Science
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Weight
12.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
98-043118
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
111/.85/09174927
Synopsis
Arabic Islamic thought allowed the development of autonomous norms of beauty that were independent of moral or religious criteria. The artistic work was viewed separately from the divine scheme and was free of metaphysical associations. Beauty, however, had a significant place in religious thought. The Arab-Muslim tradition views the beauty of the universe, emphasized in the Koran, and the literary superiority of the Koranic text itself as compelling evidence for the divine hand. Under the influence of Greek thought, philosophers, sufis, and theologians dealt with the beauty-love relationship as the basic factor in the motion of the universe. Sufi worship is based on passion for God's beauty, which is manifest in the human image. Having created a huge empire on the territory of the great ancient civilizations, the Arab conquerors saw themselves as the heirs of these cultures and acted accordingly as great patrons of the arts. The sponsorship of the arts, which bestowed a brilliance on the monarchs, was viewed as beneficial to the image of the Muslim community when facing its Christian antagonists. Poetry, calligraphy, music, architecture, and the decorative arts flourished in this system of sponsorship. It was Muslim orthodoxy itself, based on the Prophet's distance to the poets, that let art go its profane way. Sufi poets adopted the vocabulary of erotic and bacchic poetry to address God, and craftsmen applied the same architectural and decorative idiom to both religious and profane monuments. In music, virtuosity was associated with diabolic rather than divine inspiration. Music, poetry, and wine belonged to the same hedonistic experience. Doris Behrens-Abouseif's book provides a panorama of the concepts of beauty in classical and post-classical Arabic culture through the 15th century, drawing on Arabic texts from philosophy, theology, mysticism, poetry, and literary criticism as well as historiographic sources and tales from the Thousand and One Nights. Behrens-Abouseif elucidates the ways in which beauty was measured by the degree of pleasure it elicited in the recipient, an attitude that anticipates modernity in both East and West., A study of the Arabic discourse on beauty. The author searched for her evidence in 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., 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.
LC Classification Number
BH221.A65B3413 1998
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