Beauty in Arabic Culture (Princeton Series on the Middle East)
Edition: 1st American Ed edition
Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers
Published: July 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9781558761988
Subjects: Aesthetics; Cultural studies; Theory of art; Civilization, Islamic; Philosophy; Middle East; Civilization, Arab; Aesthetics, Arab
First sentence: The Encyclopaedia of Islam includes an entry under the heading "ilm al-djamal" (the modern Arabic equivalent of aesthetics), in which we read that a general theory on aesthetics and "precise definitions for the terms used in this field are lacking in the history of Arabic civilization."