Knowledge and beauty in classical Islam : an aesthetic reading of the Muqaddima by Ibn Khaldūn / Gi...
Knowledge and beauty in classical Islam : an aesthetic reading of the Muqaddima by Ibn Khaldūn / Gi...
Knowledge and beauty in classical Islam : an aesthetic reading of the Muqaddima by Ibn Khaldūn / Giovanna Lelli.
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
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G 2020/3884
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English
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Physical content
xvii, 168 pages ; 24 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
Contents
1. Ibn Khaldūn -- 2. Beauty and knowledge -- 3. Knowledge and beauty in history -- 4. Human geography and the Unseen world -- 5. Bedouin society -- 6. The dawn of Islam -- 7. Sedentary civilisation: the aesthetic State -- 8. The Muqaddima as a tragedy.
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
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England
Date Published
2021.
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"This volume offers an aesthetic reading of the Muqaddima by Ibn Khaldūn (d. 1406), a text that has been studied up to the present as a work on historiography. It argues that the Muqaddima is also a comprehensive treatise on classical Arab-Islamic culture and provides a picture of classical Arab-Islamic aesthetics in its totality. The theme of the...
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Knowledge and beauty in classical Islam : an aesthetic reading of the Muqaddima by Ibn Khaldūn / Giovanna Lelli.
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Routledge studies in islamic philosophy
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-160) and index.
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G 2020/3884
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74VKaMZPJG7A
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0367898985
9780367898984 (hbk)
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901
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991024345886302626
