Doris Behrens (235 results)

Condition: Very Good. Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Condition: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 61981st. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Paperback. Condition: Good. . Satisfaction 100% guaranteed.

Condition: As New. Like New condition. A near perfect copy that may have very minor cosmetic defects.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Arabic Islamic thought allowed the development of autonomous norms of beauty that were independent of moral or religious criteria. The artistic work was viewed separately from the divine scheme and was free of metaphysical associations.Beauty, however, had a significant place in religious thought. The Arab-Muslim tradition views the beauty of the universe, emphasized in the Koran, and the literary superiority of the Koranic text itself as compelling evidence for the divine hand. Under the influence of Greek thought, philosophers, sufis, and theologians dealt with the beauty-love relationship as the basic factor in the motion of the universe. Sufi worship is based on passion for God's beauty, which is manifest in the human image.Having created a huge empire on the territory of the great ancient civilizations, the Arab conquerors saw themselves as the heirs of these cultures and acted accordingly as great patrons of the arts. The sponsorship of the arts, which bestowed a brilliance on the monarchs, was viewed as beneficial to the image of the Muslim community when facing its Christian antagonists.Poetry, calligraphy, music, architecture, and the decorative arts flourished in this system of sponsorship. It was Muslim orthodoxy itself, based on the Prophet's distance to the poets, that let art go its profane way. Sufi poets adopted the vocabulary of erotic and bacchic poetry to address God, and craftsmen applied the same architectural and decorative idiom to both religious and profane monuments. In music, virtuosity was associated with diabolic rather than divine inspiration. Music, poetry, and wine belonged to the same hedonistic experience.Doris Behrens-Abouseif's book provides a panorama of the concepts of beauty in classical and post-classical Arabic culture through the 15th century, drawing on Arabic texts from philosophy, theology, mysticism, poetry, and literary criticism as well as historiographic sources and tales from the Thousand and One Nights. Behrens-Abouseif elucidates the ways in which beauty was measured by the degree of pleasure it elicited in the recipient, an attitude that anticipates modernity in both East and West.…

paperback. Condition: Good. Good paperback, bumped/creased with shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

Condition: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,450grams, ISBN:9781558761995.

Softcover. Condition: Befriedigend. 320 Seiten - Doris Lerche - Joy of Sex , Irene Rodrian - Ein Kratzer im Lack , Barbara Gowdy - Dreiundneunzig Millionen Meilen weit weg, Claudia Keller - Vielleicht ist er schwul , Bobbie Ann Mason - Sorghum , Karin Rick - Die Sommernacht , Doris Dörrie - Männer , Margit Schreiner - Bergheimerstraße Nr . 3 , Deborah Eisenberg - Transaktionen in fremder Währung , Edith Kneifl - Eichenlaub , Sina Aline Geissler - Tina Blümchen oder Die Entpuppung , Milena Moser - Der Ausflug , Margaret Atwood - Dichterleben , Ulla Fröhling - Die dominante Variante , Jayne Anne Philipps - Überholspur , Katja Behrens - Liebe , Pia Pera - Brief an Titti , Sabine Deitmer - Musik sprengt alle Grenzen . …

Paperback. Condition: Good. Pages clean; binding tight; minor wear to covers. 173 pages. Illustrated. Size: 8.5'' x 11".

Condition: New.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Beauty in Arabic Culture. Book.

Condition: New.

Condition: acceptable. Ausreichend/Acceptable: Exemplar mit vollständigem Text und sämtlichen Abbildungen oder Karten. Schmutztitel oder Vorsatz können fehlen. Einband bzw. Schutzumschlag weisen unter Umständen starke Gebrauchsspuren auf. / Describes a book or dust jacket that has the complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc. (which must be noted). Binding, dust jacket (if any), etc may also be worn.…

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: very good. Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.

Softcover, Heft. Seiten 12-18 Only Offprint. Zustand: keine Beschädigungen, keine Eintragungen. Rücken, Ecken, Kanten gut. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 100 Offprint from: Muqarnas, An Annual on the Visual Culture of the Islamic World, Volume 14 (1997).

Paperback. Condition: New. illustrated Edition. Although beauty, in the pre-modern Arab world, was enjoyed and promoted almost everywhere, Islam does not possess a general theory on aesthetics or a systematic theory of the arts. This is a study of the Arabic discourse on beauty. The author had to search for her evidence in written statements from a wide variety of sources, such as the Qur'an, legal, religious and Sufi texts, chronicles, biographies, belle-lettres, literary criticism, and scientific, geographic and philosophical literature. The result is a compendium of references to beauty in chapters on the Religious Approach, Secular Beauty and Love, Music and Belle-Lettres, and the Visual Arts. This approach is informative and provocative. For the generalist, it provides comparative material for an understanding of the early Arab cultural context. For the specialist, it raises questions of sponsorship and purpose.…

Broschiert. Condition: Gut. 22cm; 203; Broschiert. Sprache: Englisch, Zustand: Gut bis Sehr Gut min. gebräunt (Innen); Einband (Außen) hat min. bis geringe Gebrauchsspuren; * Die Photos sind original von uns erstellt worden, u.a. erkennbar an einem kleinen weißen Stück Papier im oberen Schnitt. Ab und an verwenden Suchmaschinen Verlagsphotos, bei den Portalen selbst, werden aber nur unsere Originalphotos gezeigt.…

Condition: Bon. Couverture différente. Edition 1996. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Good. Different cover. Edition 1996. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo, pictorial wraps. 203 pp. Numerous b/w photos and line illustrations. Small ink signature at top of the inside cover and under title on title page. Else very good copy, tight and clean. This is a small book that can be shipped airmail overseas for only $ 24.00.…

Condition: Gut. 242 S. ; 23 cm, Schutzumschlag etwas angerändert, Einbandecken vorn oben angestoßen, kleines Fleckchen oben am Vorderdeckel und ebd. innen am Schutzumschlag (vermutlich Wachs), sonst und gesamt gutes, auch textsauberes Exemplar. Ab dem 12. August 2026 stellen wir unseren Versand in EU-Länder, EWR-Länder (Island, Liechtenstein, Norwegen), ein. Grund dafür sind die strengen Vorgaben der neuen europäischen Verpackungsverordnung (PPWR). Die dadurch entstehenden Auflagen und Kosten sind für uns wirtschaftlich und aus Gründen nicht umsetzbar. Vielen Dank für Ihr Verständnis. BESTELLUNGEN MIT EINER DEUTSCHEN VERSANDANSCHRIFT WERDEN WEITERHIN AUSGEFÜHRT. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 540 Gr.-8°, Leinen mit Schutzumschlag.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. This is a near fine second printing paperback copy, blue spine.

Softcover, Heft. Seiten 101-114 Nur Sonderdruck. Zustand: keine Beschädigungen, keine Eintragungen. Rücken, Ecken, Kanten gut. Sprache: Französisch Gewicht in Gramm: 100 Sonderdruck aus: Études alexandrines 3 - 1998, Alexandrie médiévale 1.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. viii, 220 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Soft cover. 8vo. pp 203. Beige covers illustrated in brown. Illustrated throughout in black and white. ISBN: 9774240359 Very good, a little sunned at spine.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Has some light general reading/shelfwear - otherwise this is a clean, tight copy. Dispatch within 24hrs from the UK. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 203 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. Contents: The minaret The Mu'adhdhin The pharos of Alexandria and the minaret Stylistic evolution of Cairene minarets The location of minarets Epigraphy of Cairene minarets The finial The staircase The Mabkhara and the bulb-shaped top The transitional zone of minarets Survey of Cairene minarets The Adhan : the call to prayer Koranic epigraphy of Cairene minarets.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 4to. xviii, 173 pp. Stiff pictorial card wraps. Faint crease to top corner of front wrap, light rubbing. Very Good.