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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.

Publisher:

University of California Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

xvi, 280 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Islamic philosophy--11th century.
Islamic poetry--11th century.
Arabic language--Islam.--Islam.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Note on translation practice, transliterations, and footnotes -- Contexts -- Precedents -- Translation -- The lexicon -- Theology -- Logic -- Poetics -- Conclusion.

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.

Series:

Berkeley series in postclassical islamic scholarship ; 2

ISBN:

0520298012
9780520298019

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1029770002

LCCN:

2018009383

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)