Language Between God and the Poets

Alexander Key, MA 2001

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.

"Alexander Key takes four major exponents of eleventh-century Arabic lexicography, theology, logic, and poetics and explores the interconnectedness of their thinking on 'mental content' and its various 'accurate' realizations. His explorations of the conceptual base and vocabulary shared by these thinkers convince. This book, brimming with philological insight, crackles with erudition."

—James E. Montgomery, Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic, Fellow of Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge

ISBN: 9780520298019 / 9780520970144