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Author Kemal, Salim

Title The philosophical poetics of Alfarabi, Avicenna and Averroës : the Aristotelian reception / Salim Kemal
Published London : RoutledgeCurzon, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 362 pages)
Series Culture and civilisatioin in the Middle East
Culture and civilisatioin in the Middle East
Contents Cover; The Philosophical Poetics of Alfarabi, Avicenna and Averroës: The Aristotelian Reception; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; CHAPTER ONE Philosophical Poetics; CHAPTER TWO Alfarabi, Logic and Poetry; CHAPTER THREE Avicenna: lmagination, Language and Poetic Syllogism; CHAPTER FOUR Poetics, Morality and Society; CHAPTER FIVE Prelude to Truth: Ghazali, Interpretation and Metaphor; CHAPTER SlX Averroës,Truth and Metaphor; Notes; Select Bibliography; lndex
Summary This book examines the studies of Aristotle's Poetics and its related texts in which three Medieval philosophers - Alfarabi, Avicenna and Averroes - proposed a conception of poetic validity (beauty), and a just relation between subjects in a community (goodness). The work considers the relation of the Poetics to other Aristotelian texts, the transmission of these works to the commentators' context, and the motivations driving the commentators' reception of the texts. The book focuses on issues central to the classical relation of beauty to truth and goodness
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Avicenna, 980-1037.
Averroës, 1126-1198
Aristotle. Poetics.
Fārābī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 874-950
SUBJECT Averroës, 1126-1198 fast
Avicenna, 980-1037 fast
Aristoteles. De arte poetica. swd
Averroes. swd
Avicenna. swd
Farābī, Abū-Naṣr Muḥammad Ibn-Muḥammad ((al- )) swd
Poetics (Aristotle) fast
Subject Aesthetics.
PHILOSOPHY -- Eastern.
Aesthetics
Islamitische filosofie.
Poetica (Aristoteles)
Islam.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781136121227
1136121226
128388383X
9781283883832
9780203037195
0203037197