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Speaker(s): Alexander Key, èצӰÏñ

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Ambiguity in Islam: Logic and Poetics
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This is the second draft of an article about Avicenna, Abd al-Qahir al-Jurjani, and a selection of literary critics and their rhetorical figures from from the eleventh to the fifteenth centuries. The information from the eleventh century is based on Key's 2018 monograph, Language Between God and the Poets, and the reading of subsequent poetic taxonomies is part of new research Key is doing on the nature of literary criticism.
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Alexander Key is an Associate Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at èצӰÏñ. Key is a scholar of Classical Arabic literature with interests ranging across the intellectual history of the Arabic and Persian-speaking worlds from the seventh century onwards. Language Between God and the Poets (UC Press, open access) explains Classical Arabic theories about poetry and philosophy to all who are interested in how language produces affect and reflects the world.