Arabic Poetics. Aesthetic Experience in Classical Arabic Literature, Paperback

Revealing how an aesthetic of wonder underlies classical Arabic treatments of poetry, the Quran, and Aristotelian poetics, this fresh look at the question of literary quality, using the framework of aesthetic theory, is essential reading for scholars and students of Arabic literature, Islamic Studies, literary theory and Islamic art history.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Author(s): Lara (Princeton University, New Jersey) Harb
• Illustration(s): Worked examples or Exercises
• Number of pages: 319
• Collection: Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
• Publication date: 2021
• Dimensions: 151 x 229 x 22
• Cover type: Paperback / softback