Cover

Contents

List of Illustrations

Foreword

Preface

Introduction

1 Beauty and the Aesthetic Experience in Classical Arabic Thought

2 The Aesthetics of the Solomonic Parable in the Qur’an

3 Understanding the Comares Hall in the Light of Phenomenology

4 Abstraction, Kinetics and Metaphor: the ‘Geometries’ of the Alhambra

5 The Signifying Aesthetic System of Inscriptions in Islamic Art

Notes

Bibliography

Index