附註:List of Illustrations; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; 1 Beauty and the Aesthetic Experience in Classical Arabic Thought; 2 The Aesthetics of the Solomonic Parable in the Qur'an; 3 Understanding the Comares Hall in the Light of Phenomenology; 4 Abstraction, Kinetics and Metaphor: the 'Geometries' of the Alhambra; 5 The Signifying Aesthetic System of Inscriptions in Islamic Art; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
摘要:Beauty and Islam' explores aspects of aesthetics in classical Islamic thought in the light of contemporary theories, offering new perspectives on Islamic art and architecture with examples ranging from the Qur'an and the Alhambra to the works of present day artists and philosophers. Tracing the roots of Islamic aesthetics back to the works of the great philosophers of the Middle Ages such as Avicenna and Averroes, Valerie Gonzalez finds that aesthetic theory in Islam must be seen within the much wider context of parallel thinking on theology, ethics, physics and metaphysics.
