Language between God and the Poets: Ma'na in the Eleventh Century

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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, ...