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

Alexander Key

book: Language between God and the Poets

Open Access Published by University of California Press 2018

Language between God and the Poets

Ma‘na in the Eleventh Century

Alexander Key

Volume 2 in the series Berkeley Series in Postclassical Islamic Scholarship

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780520970144

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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.

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Key Alexander :

Alexander Key is Assistant Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature in the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages at Stanford University.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Note on Translation Practice, Transliterations, and Footnotes Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
Opening Statement Open Access Download PDF	1
1. Contexts Open Access Download PDF	7
2. Precedents Open Access Download PDF	27
3. Translation Open Access Download PDF	57
4. The Lexicon Open Access Download PDF	87
5. Theology Open Access Download PDF	110
6. Logic Open Access Download PDF	152
7. Poetics Open Access Download PDF	196
8. Conclusion Open Access Download PDF	241
References Open Access Download PDF	247
Index of Names and Subjects Open Access Download PDF	269

Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
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- Main content: 296

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Published: August 28, 2018
ISBN: 9780520970144