| Description |
1 online resource (187 p.) |
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Routledge Studies in Islamic Philosophy Ser |
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Routledge Studies in Islamic Philosophy Ser
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| Contents |
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Ibn Khaldūn, 1332-1406. Kitāb al-ʿibar. Muqaddimah.
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| SUBJECT |
Kitāb al-ʻibar (Ibn Khaldūn) fast |
| Subject |
Aesthetics, Arab.
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Aesthetics, Arab
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000205596 |
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1000205592 |
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9781000205558 |
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100020555X |
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9781000205572 |
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1000205576 |
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9781003021902 |
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1003021905 |
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