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Record Nr.

UNINA9910284441003321

Autore

Key Alexander (Alexander Matthew)

Titolo

Language between God and the Poets : Ma‘na in the Eleventh Century / / Alexander Key

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oakland, : University of California Press, 2018

Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , [2018]

©[2018]

ISBN

0-520-29801-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 280 pages) : PDF, digital file(s)

Collana

Berkeley series in postclassical islamic scholarship ; ; 2

Disciplina

181/.92

Soggetti

Arabic language - Religious aspects - Islam

Islamic poetry - 11th century

Islamic philosophy - 11th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

"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