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100 1 _aLelli, Giovanna,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aKnowledge and Beauty in Classical Islam :
_bAn Aesthetic Reading of the Muqaddima by Ibn Khaldun /
_cGiovanna Lelli
250 _aFirst Edition
264 1 _aLondon, United Kingdom :
_bROUTLEDGE, Taylor & Francis Ltd.,
_c[2021?]
264 4 _c©2021
300 _a168 pages ;
_c24 cm.
336 _2rdacontent
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338 _2rdacarrier
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490 1 _aRoutledge studies in Islamic philosophy
520 _aThis volume offers an aesthetic reading of the Muqaddima by Ibn Khaldun (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 book is the intrinsic connection between beauty and knowledge in the Muqaddima. Whenever Ibn Khaldun deals with the problem of knowledge and science, he also deals with the problem of sensual beauty as an instrument or an obstacle to attain it. Ibn Khaldun's philosophy of history is necessarily also an aesthetics of history. His key-notion of "group feeling", the physical, ethic and aesthetic virtue of Bedouin societies, is at once the origin of the ascent of centralised States and the cause of their ruin. It represents a tragic contradiction that applies to the history of the Maghreb but then takes a universal value. It reflects a range of other contradictions inherent to the "system" of classical Arab-Islamic aesthetics. These contradictions undermine the aesthetic system of the Muqaddima from within and provide decisive elements for the emergence of modern aesthetics. Offering a comparative approach, the volume is a key resource to scholars and students interested in Arabic and Islamic studies, philosophy, aesthetics and global history.
600 0 0 _aIbn Khaldūn,
_d1332-1406.
_tKitāb al-ʻibar. Muqaddimah.
650 1 0 _aAesthetics, Arab.
830 0 _aRoutledge studies in Islamic philosophy
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