Language Between God and the Poets maʿnā in the eleventh century

How does language work? How does language produce truth and beauty? Eleventh-century Arabic scholarship has detailed answers to these universal questions. Language Between God and the Poets reads the theory of four major scholars and asks how the conceptual vocabulary they shared enabled them to cre...

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Main Author: Key, Alexander (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Oakland University of California Press 2018
Series:Berkeley Series in Postclassical Islamic Scholarship
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