UID:
almahu_9949863556302882
Format:
1 online resource (298 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780520970144
Series Statement:
Berkeley Series in Postclassical Islamic Scholarship Series ; v.2
Content:
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. 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.
Note:
Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Translation Practice -- Opening Statement -- 1 Contexts -- The Eleventh Century -- The Four Scholars -- Ar-Rāġib -- Ibn Fūrak -- Ibn Sīnā -- Al-Ǧurǧānī -- The Madrasa -- 2 Precedents -- In Book Titles -- In the Arabic Dictionary -- In the Opening Sentence of the First Arabic Book -- In a Work of Lexical Theory -- Adherents of lafẓ, Adherents of maʿnā, and the Pursuit of ḥaqīqah -- Literary Criticism -- Politics and Society -- Linguistics -- Theology -- Theologians (Muʿammar) -- 3 Translation -- Language Use (Wittgenstein) -- Core Conceptual Vocabulary (Kuhn) -- Maʿnā1, maʿnā2, maʿnā3, maʿnā4 -- Two Distinct Lexemes -- Four General Headings -- Intrinsic Causal Determinants -- Entities and Entitative Attributes -- Divergent Concepts -- A Grid of Principles and Contexts -- Lafẓ1-3 and maʿnā1-3 -- Meaning -- The Distraction of the Sign (Saussure) -- Homonymy or Polysemy? -- Folk Theory or Technical Terminology? -- 4 The Lexicon -- Principles (al-uṣūl) -- Intent -- Name, Named, and Naming (ism, musammā, tasmiyah) -- Accuracy and Beyond (ḥaqīqah and maǧāz) -- 5 Theology -- Framing Theology -- Islamic Theology (ʿilm al-kalām) -- Relativism? Words or Things -- Theologies Directed at the World -- Language in ʿAbd al-Ǧabbār -- Atoms, Bodies, and Accidents with Ibn Fūrak -- The World Connected to God -- God's maʿānī -- Acquisition (kasb) -- God's Speech -- God's Names -- Speech in the Soul (kalām nafsī) -- Human Accuracy -- Objective Truth -- Accurate Language about the World -- Accurate Accounts of Literature and Physics -- Knowledge Is Everything -- Everything Is Knowledge -- 6 Logic -- Ibn Sīnā between Greece and the West -- Greece in the Arabic Eleventh Century -- The Arabic Eleventh Century and the West.
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Translation in Three Directions (Greek, Latin, and Persian) -- Mental Contents in Ibn Sīnā's Conceptual Vocabulary -- Mathematical Origins -- Three Existences (triplex status naturae) -- Marks on the Soul (al-āṯār allatī fī an-nafs) -- The Lexicon -- Intent -- Ibn Sīnā's Mental Contents in Action -- Being Is Said in Many Ways and pros hen -- Attributes (ṣifāt) -- Logical Assent (taṣdīq) -- First and Second Position (prima et secunda positio) -- Aristotelian Philosophy Done with Arabic Conceptual Vocabulary -- 7 Poetics -- What Is Good maʿnā? -- Self-Consciously Theoretical Answers in Monographs -- Poetics from Axes to Zones (aqṭāb and aqṭār) -- Syntax Time -- Lexical Accuracy (ḥaqīqah) -- Syntax (naẓm) -- Logic and Grammar -- The Grammar of Metaphor and Comparison (istiʿārah vs. tašbīh) -- Essence -- 8 Conclusion -- References -- Index of Names and Subjects -- فهرس المصطلحات العربية الموجودة في الحواشي -- فهرس القوافي -- فهرس صدور الأبيات.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Key, Alexander Language Between God and the Poets Berkeley : University of California Press,c2018 ISBN 9780520298019
Language:
English
Keywords:
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https://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
