Experientia and Auctoritas: ʿAbd Al-Latif Al-Baghdadi’s Kitāb Al-Ifāda Wa’l-Iʿtibār and the Birth of the Critical Gaze

This short study looks into the mind of the Ayyubid intellectual Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi, also known as al-Labbad, who was born in Baghdad in 1162 and died there in 1231–32 at the age of 69. The focus of this article is his famous book Kitāb al-Ifāda wa’l-iʿtibār fi’l-umūr al-mushāhada wa’l-ḥawadit...

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Main Author: Shalem, Avinoʿam 1959- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2015
In: Muqarnas
Year: 2015, Volume: 32, Issue: 1, Pages: 197-212
Further subjects:B Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi
 Aristotle
 Pharaonic Egypt
 Cairo
 gaze
 Sphinx
 pyramids
 Maimonides
 Matteo Pagano
 Jean-Léon Gérôme
 Description de l’Égypte
 al-Azhar Mosque

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