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the concept of beauty is apprehended in ideal and spiritual terms related to

mimesis

Ibn Hazm

meta-aesthetics

true beauty comprises a conjunction of moral, spiritual, intellectual, and even physical characteristics

the universe emanates from the superior divine world

inner perception of the ultimate beauty, namely, divine beauty

Ibn al-Haytham

beauty

Ibn Rushd

Ibn Sina

beauty

does not necessarily produce formal beauty but opens a cognitive path

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.

called for a hierarchy of nobility instead of beauty

stems from the licit enjoyment of the beautiful

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.

understands that both the earthly sphere and the divine sphere are in a reflexive relationship underpinned by the principle of emanation.

light and brightness

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.

has to be deduced from a systematic analytical approach of perceptible reality conceived as a coherent and ordered whole.

recognizes beauty as an objective and visible fact that all objects and beings display in various degrees.