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