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'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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Author

Valérie Gonzalez; Institute of Ismaili Studies

Publisher

I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London ; Distributed in the U.S. by St. Martin's Press

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9781282528338

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Islam, Philosophy