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Beauty and Islam: aesthetics in Islamic art and architecture

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ISBN	1860646913 (hbk.)
ISBN	9781860646911 (hbk.)
Author	Gonzalez, Valérie
Title	Beauty and Islam : aesthetics in Islamic art and architecture / [by] Valérie Gonzalez
Publisher	London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, 2001
Physical desc.	xv, 134 p., [16] p. of plates ; col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography etc.	Includes bibliographical references (p. 124-129) and index.
Contents	Beauty and the aesthetic experience in classical Arabic thought -- The Aesthetics of the Solomonic parable in the Qur'an -- Understanding the Comares Hall in the light of phenomenology -- Abstraction, kinetics and metaphor: the 'geometries' of the Alhambra -- The signifying aesthetic system of inscriptions in Islamic art.
Corporate name	Alhambra (Granada, Spain)
Subject	Islamic art -- Themes, motives
	Islamic art and symbolism
	Islamic architecture -- Themes, motives
	Islamic architecture -- Spain
	Aesthetics, Arab
	Aesthetics in the Koran
Added name(s) - Corporate	Institute of Ismaili Studies

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