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Author Key, Alexander (Alexander Matthew), author.

Title Language between God and the poets : ma'ná in the eleventh century / Alexander Key.

Publication Info. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource
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Series Berkeley series in postclassical islamic scholarship ; 2
Berkeley series in postclassical Islamic scholarship ; 2.
Contents Note on translation practice, transliterations, and footnotes -- Contexts -- Precedents -- Translation -- The lexicon -- Theology -- Logic -- Poetics -- Conclusion.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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
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Language English.
Access Open Access EbpS
Subject Islamic philosophy -- 11th century.
Islamic poetry -- 11th century.
Arabic language -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
Philosophie islamique -- 11e siècle.
Poésie islamique -- 11e siècle.
Literary studies: classical, early & medieval.
Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500.
Philosophy.
Islam.
HISTORY -- Middle East -- Arabian Peninsula.
Arabic language -- Religious aspects -- Islam
Islamic philosophy
Islamic poetry
Chronological Term 1000-1099
Indexed Term abd al qahir al jurjani.
answers.
ar raghib al isfahani.
arabic.
avicenna.
beauty.
conceptual vocabulary.
describing god.
eleventh century.
god.
haquqah.
ibn furak.
ibn sina.
intellectual space.
language and reference.
language.
lexicography.
logic.
logical arguments.
ma na.
mind.
muslim.
perennial questions.
poetic affect.
poetics.
poets.
reality.
religion.
scholars.
theology.
theories of language.
truth.
Other Form: Print version: Key, Alexander (Alexander Matthew). Language between God and the poets. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018] 9780520298019 (DLC) 2018009383
ISBN 0520970144
0520298012
9780520298019
9780520970144 (electronic bk.)
Standard No. 10.1525/luminos.54 doi
AU@ 000062110823

 
    
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