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Language between God and the Poets

Ma‘na in the Eleventh Century

Alexander Key author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of California Press

Published:12th Feb '19

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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 on 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.

ISBN: 9780520298019

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm

Weight: 454g

296 pages