Relier Pairs Beauty in Classic ArabicVersion en ligne Views of four medieval Islamic philosophers par Karim Youssef 1 beauty 2 meta-aesthetics 3 mimesis 4 the concept of beauty is apprehended in ideal and spiritual terms related to 5 inner perception of the ultimate beauty, namely, divine beauty 6 beauty 7 Ibn al-Haytham 8 Ibn Sina 9 Ibn Hazm 10 true beauty comprises a conjunction of moral, spiritual, intellectual, and even physical characteristics 11 Ibn Rushd 12 the universe emanates from the superior divine world light and brightness understands that both the earthly sphere and the divine sphere are in a reflexive relationship underpinned by the principle of emanation. recognizes beauty as an objective and visible fact that all objects and beings display in various degrees. organizes the attributes and qualities assigned to perceptible beauty in a three-tiered hierarchy. that mold themselves into a kind of perfect being or one that tends toward perfection. does not necessarily produce formal beauty but opens a cognitive path called for a hierarchy of nobility instead of beauty has to be deduced from a systematic analytical approach of perceptible reality conceived as a coherent and ordered whole. stems from the licit enjoyment of the beautiful a philosophy of sensory experience that does not treat its subject separately, but includes it within the wider area of various orders of questions, the ontological, religious, ethical, and their derivatives. and is consequently a reflection of it, graduated in various levels. identifies itself with objective and observable notions of order, structural cohesiveness and physical harmony.