Between Ephemerality and Eternality: Beauty and Transcendence in Arabic Mystical Poetry

The question of beauty continues to engage humans, especially intellectuals, who inquire into its quintessence and the sources from which it derives. Does beauty consist in attaining geometric harmony of structure and shape, or in achieving numerical proportion in audio and visual? Or, does beauty t...

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Main Author: Sarumi, Kahar Wahab (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Institute for Interdisciplinary Research 2022
In: Journal of interdisciplinary studies
Year: 2022, Volume: 34, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 147-171
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