{"product_id":"language-between-god-and-the-poets-9780520298019","title":"Language between God and the Poets","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA free ebook version of this title is available throughLuminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visitwww.luminosoa.orgto 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 wordsmana 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Note on Translation Practice, Transliterations, and Footnotes\u003cbr\u003e Opening Statement\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. Contexts\u003cbr\u003e The Eleventh Century\u003cbr\u003e The Four Scholars\u003cbr\u003e Ar-Ragib\u003cbr\u003e Ibn Furak\u003cbr\u003e Ibn Sina\u003cbr\u003e Al-G?urg?ani\u003cbr\u003e The Madrasa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2. Precedents\u003cbr\u003e In Translation from Greek\u003cbr\u003e In Book Titles\u003cbr\u003e In the Arabic Dictionary\u003cbr\u003e In the Opening Sentence of the First Arabic Book\u003cbr\u003e In a Work of Lexical Theory\u003cbr\u003e Adherents of laf ?, Adherents of ma?na, and the Pursuit of ?aqiqah\u003cbr\u003e Literary Criticism\u003cbr\u003e Politics and Society\u003cbr\u003e Linguistics\u003cbr\u003e Theology\u003cbr\u003e Theologians (Mu?ammar)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. Translation\u003cbr\u003e Language Use (Wittgenstein)\u003cbr\u003e Core Conceptual Vocabulary (Kuhn)\u003cbr\u003e Ma?na1, ma?na2, ma?na3, ma?na4\u003cbr\u003e Two Distinct Lexemes\u003cbr\u003e Four General Headings\u003cbr\u003e Intrinsic Causal Determinants\u003cbr\u003e Entities and Entitative Attributes\u003cbr\u003e Divergent Concepts\u003cbr\u003e A Grid of Principles and Contexts\u003cbr\u003e Laf ?1–3 and ma?na1–3\u003cbr\u003e Meaning\u003cbr\u003e The Distraction of the Sign (Saussure)\u003cbr\u003e Homonymy or Polysemy?\u003cbr\u003e Folk Theory or Technical Terminology?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Lexicon\u003cbr\u003e Principles (al-u?ul)\u003cbr\u003e Intent\u003cbr\u003e Name, Named, and Naming (ism, musamma, tasmiyah)\u003cbr\u003e Accuracy and Beyond (?aqiqah and mag?az)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5. Theology\u003cbr\u003e Framing Theology\u003cbr\u003e Islamic Theology (?ilm al-kalam)\u003cbr\u003e Relativism? Words or Things\u003cbr\u003e Theologies Directed at the World\u003cbr\u003e Language in ?Abd al-G?abbar\u003cbr\u003e Atoms, Bodies, and Accidents with Ibn Furak\u003cbr\u003e The World Connected to God\u003cbr\u003e God’s ma?ani\u003cbr\u003e Acquisition (kasb)\u003cbr\u003e God’s Speech\u003cbr\u003e God’s Names\u003cbr\u003e Speech in the Soul (kalam nafsi)\u003cbr\u003e Human Accuracy\u003cbr\u003e Objective Truth\u003cbr\u003e Accurate Language about the World\u003cbr\u003e Accurate Accounts of Literature and Physics\u003cbr\u003e Knowledge Is Everything\u003cbr\u003e Everything Is Knowledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6. Logic\u003cbr\u003e Ibn Sina between Greece and the West\u003cbr\u003e Greece in the Arabic Eleventh Century\u003cbr\u003e The Arabic Eleventh Century and the West\u003cbr\u003e Translation in Three Directions (Greek, Latin, and Persian)\u003cbr\u003e Mental Contents in Ibn Sina’s Conceptual Vocabulary\u003cbr\u003e Mathematical Origins\u003cbr\u003e Three Existences (triplex status naturae)\u003cbr\u003e Marks on the Soul (al-at_ar allati fi an-nafs)\u003cbr\u003e The Lexicon\u003cbr\u003e Intent\u003cbr\u003e Ibn Sina’s Mental Contents in Action\u003cbr\u003e Being Is Said in Many Ways and pros hen\u003cbr\u003e Attributes (?ifat)\u003cbr\u003e Logical Assent (ta?diq)\u003cbr\u003e First and Second Position (prima et secunda positio)\u003cbr\u003e Aristotelian Philosophy Done with Arabic Conceptual Vocabulary\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 7. Poetics\u003cbr\u003e What Is Good ma?na?\u003cbr\u003e Self-Consciously Theoretical Answers in Monographs\u003cbr\u003e Poetics from Axes to Zones (aq?ab and aq?ar)\u003cbr\u003e Syntax Time\u003cbr\u003e Lexical Accuracy (?aqiqah)\u003cbr\u003e Syntax (na?m)\u003cbr\u003e Logic and Grammar\u003cbr\u003e The Grammar of Metaphor and Comparison (isti?arah vs. tas?bih)\u003cbr\u003e Essence\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 8. Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402901365079,"sku":"9780520298019","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520298019.jpg?v=1730481814","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/language-between-god-and-the-poets-9780520298019","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}