Philosophies of Music in Medieval Islam

Erscheinungsjahr 1995
ISBN: 978-90-04-10128-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 67, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 242 mm x 163 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History

This surveys the philosophies of music of the most important thinkers in Islam between the 9th and the 15th centuries A.D. It covers topics ranging from the physics and aesthetics of sound, the nature of music, its place in the total scheme of things and in human life, the relation between music, astronomy, astrology and meteorology, the relation between music and human feelings character and behaviour, to the question of whether a good Muslim should be allowed to listen to music at all, and if so, to which type.
The book traces the influence of Greek, in particular Pythagorean and Aristoxenian, thinking in Islam on this subject, and aims to provide a philosophically coherent statement of thinking of the Islamic writers concerned, a clarification of their central arguments, as well as a critical evaluation of their line of thought. The author introduces a wide range of material from manuscript sources, including much that has not been published before.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shehadi, Fadlou

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Literatur & Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Geschichte des Islam Geschichte des Islam: 7. - 14. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien

Über Autor(innen)

Fadlou Shehadi, Princeton University, is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Rutgers University. He has published in Islamic Philosophy: Ghazali's Unique Unknowable God (Brill, 1964), Metaphysics in Islamic Philospy (Caravan, 1982), Ghazali's al-Maqsad al-asna (Dar al-Mashriq, 1971)