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abd al qahir al jurjani
answers
ar raghib al isfahani
arabic
Author_Alexander Key
avicenna
beauty
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conceptual vocabulary
describing god
eleventh century
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god
haquqah
ibn furak
ibn sina
intellectual space
language
language and reference
lexicography
logic
logical arguments
ma na
mind
muslim
perennial questions
poetic affect
poetics
poets
reality
religion
scholars
theology
theories of language
truth
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- ISBN 9780520298019
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 28 Aug 2018
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 on 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.
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 on 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.
Alexander Key is Assistant Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature in the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages at Stanford University.
