Matching Pairs Beauty in Classic ArabicOnline version Views of four medieval Islamic philosophers by Karim Youssef 1 mimesis 2 the concept of beauty is apprehended in ideal and spiritual terms related to 3 meta-aesthetics 4 Ibn Rushd 5 beauty 6 Ibn Hazm 7 the universe emanates from the superior divine world 8 inner perception of the ultimate beauty, namely, divine beauty 9 Ibn al-Haytham 10 Ibn Sina 11 true beauty comprises a conjunction of moral, spiritual, intellectual, and even physical characteristics 12 beauty light and brightness recognizes beauty as an objective and visible fact that all objects and beings display in various degrees. 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 understands that both the earthly sphere and the divine sphere are in a reflexive relationship underpinned by the principle of emanation. stems from the licit enjoyment of the beautiful and is consequently a reflection of it, graduated in various levels. has to be deduced from a systematic analytical approach of perceptible reality conceived as a coherent and ordered whole. identifies itself with objective and observable notions of order, structural cohesiveness and physical harmony. organizes the attributes and qualities assigned to perceptible beauty in a three-tiered hierarchy. 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. called for a hierarchy of nobility instead of beauty