Aesthetic Understanding in the Prophet's Teachings

<p>This book focuses on Prophet Muhammad's understanding of beauty and aesthetics. Both the Holy Quran and the hadiths make rich references to these related concepts. The book opens with a discussion of the concept of aesthetics and its historical background and continues on to study the words related to beauty used in the Quran and hadiths. It reaches its peak when exploring the aesthetics of the social world of the Prophet how he saw everything from their language to their clothing from their behavior to the work they did and the places in which they lived from their social life to their use of goods from their worship to their prayers. This work the first comprehensive work written in this field contributes to our understanding of the Prophet and our contemporary perceptions of aesthetics.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p>