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Language between God and the Poets Ma‘na in the Eleventh Century / Alexander Key.
De Gruyter University of California Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 Available online
De Gruyter University of California Press Complete eBook-Package 2018- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Key, Alexander (Alexander Matthew), author.
- Series:
- Berkeley series in postclassical Islamic scholarship ; 2.
- Berkeley series in postclassical islamic scholarship ; 2
- Language:
- Arabic
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arabic language--Religious aspects--Islam.
- Arabic language.
- Islamic poetry--11th century.
- Islamic poetry.
- Islamic philosophy--11th century.
- Islamic philosophy.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 280 pages) : PDF, digital file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Oakland University of California Press 2018
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
- Language Note:
- In English with excerpts translated from the Arabic.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- "In the Arabic eleventh century, scholars were intensely preoccupied with the way that language generated truth and beauty. Their work in poetics, logic, theology, and lexicography defined the intellectual space between God and the poets. In Language Between God and the Poets, Alexander Key argues that ar-Raghib al-Isfahani, Ibn Furak, Ibn Sina (Avicenna), and Abd al-Qahir al-Jurjani shared a conceptual vocabulary based around the words ma'na and haqiqah. They used this vocabulary to build theories of language, mind, and reality that answered perennial questions: how to structure language and reference, how to describe God, how to construct logical arguments, and how to explain poetic affect."--Provided by publisher
- Contents:
- Note on translation practice, transliterations, and footnotes
- Contexts
- Precedents
- Translation
- The lexicon
- Theology
- Logic
- Poetics
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 0-520-29801-2
- OCLC:
- 1029780425
- Access Restriction:
- Unrestricted online access.
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