Del 2 - Berkeley Series in Postclassical Islamic Scholarship

Language between God and the Poets

Ma‘na in the Eleventh Century

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-08-28
Mått152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieBerkeley Series in Postclassical Islamic Scholarship
Antal sidor296
FörlagUniversity of California Press
ISBN9780520298019

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AcknowledgmentsNote on Translation Practice, Transliterations, and FootnotesOpening Statement1. ContextsThe Eleventh CenturyThe Four ScholarsAr-RagibIbn FurakIbn SinaAl-G?urg?aniThe Madrasa2. PrecedentsIn Translation from GreekIn Book TitlesIn the Arabic DictionaryIn the Opening Sentence of the First Arabic BookIn a Work of Lexical TheoryAdherents of laf ?, Adherents of ma?na, and the Pursuit of ?aqiqahLiterary CriticismPolitics and SocietyLinguisticsTheologyTheologians (Mu?ammar)3. TranslationLanguage Use (Wittgenstein)Core Conceptual Vocabulary (Kuhn)Ma?na1, ma?na2, ma?na3, ma?na4Two Distinct LexemesFour General HeadingsIntrinsic Causal DeterminantsEntities and Entitative AttributesDivergent ConceptsA Grid of Principles and ContextsLaf ?1–3 and ma?na1–3MeaningThe Distraction of the Sign (Saussure)Homonymy or Polysemy?Folk Theory or Technical Terminology?4. The LexiconPrinciples (al-u?ul)IntentName, Named, and Naming (ism, musamma, tasmiyah)Accuracy and Beyond (?aqiqah and mag?az)5. TheologyFraming TheologyIslamic Theology (?ilm al-kalam)Relativism? Words or ThingsTheologies Directed at the WorldLanguage in ?Abd al-G?abbarAtoms, Bodies, and Accidents with Ibn FurakThe World Connected to GodGod’s ma?aniAcquisition (kasb)God’s SpeechGod’s NamesSpeech in the Soul (kalam nafsi)Human AccuracyObjective TruthAccurate Language about the WorldAccurate Accounts of Literature and PhysicsKnowledge Is EverythingEverything Is Knowledge6. LogicIbn Sina between Greece and the WestGreece in the Arabic Eleventh CenturyThe Arabic Eleventh Century and the WestTranslation in Three Directions (Greek, Latin, and Persian)Mental Contents in Ibn Sina’s Conceptual VocabularyMathematical OriginsThree Existences (triplex status naturae)Marks on the Soul (al-at_ar allati fi an-nafs)The LexiconIntentIbn Sina’s Mental Contents in ActionBeing Is Said in Many Ways and pros henAttributes (?ifat)Logical Assent (ta?diq)First and Second Position (prima et secunda positio)Aristotelian Philosophy Done with Arabic Conceptual Vocabulary7. PoeticsWhat Is Good ma?na?Self-Consciously Theoretical Answers in MonographsPoetics from Axes to Zones (aq?ab and aq?ar)Syntax TimeLexical Accuracy (?aqiqah)Syntax (na?m)Logic and GrammarThe Grammar of Metaphor and Comparison (isti?arah vs. tas?bih)Essence8. ConclusionReferencesIndex