This volume offers an aesthetic reading of the Muqaddima by Ibn Khald¿n, 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.
This volume offers an aesthetic reading of the Muqaddima by Ibn Khald¿n, 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.
Giovanna Lelli has been a visiting professor of Arabic and Islamic studies at the Universities of Gent and Leuven (KUL). Her interests are interdisciplinary, particularly the comparative studies of the civilisations that flourished around the Mediterranean Sea in the Middle Ages on common Hellenistic roots. She also pursues a reflection on the problematic relationship between the classical heritage and modernity in the Arab-Islamic and the Western world from a global historical perspective.
Inhaltsangabe
Preface 1. Ibn Khald¿n 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
Preface 1. Ibn Khald¿n 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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