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Language between God and the poets : ma'ná in the eleventh century
- Title
- Language between God and the poets : ma'ná in the eleventh century / Alexander Key.
- Author
- Key, Alexander (Alexander Matthew)
- Publication
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
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Details
- Description
- xvi, 280 pages; 24 cm.
- 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 Statement
- Berkeley series in postclassical islamic scholarship ; 2
- Uniform Title
- Berkeley series in postclassical Islamic scholarship ; 2.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Note on translation practice, transliterations, and footnotes -- Contexts -- Precedents -- Translation -- The lexicon -- Theology -- Logic -- Poetics -- Conclusion.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-9550
- ISBN
- 9780520298019
- 0520298012
- LCCN
- 2018009383
- OCLC
- 1029770002
- Author
- Key, Alexander (Alexander Matthew), author.
- Title
- Language between God and the poets : ma'ná in the eleventh century / Alexander Key.
- Publisher
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Berkeley series in postclassical islamic scholarship ; 2Berkeley series in postclassical Islamic scholarship ; 2.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1000-1099
- Other Form:
- Online version: Key, Alexander (Alexander Matthew). Language between God and the poets. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018] 9780520970144 (DLC) 2018013953
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-9550