Matching Pairs Beauty in Classic ArabicOnline version Views of four medieval Islamic philosophers by Karim Youssef 1 Ibn al-Haytham 2 Ibn Hazm 3 beauty 4 the concept of beauty is apprehended in ideal and spiritual terms related to 5 beauty 6 Ibn Sina 7 inner perception of the ultimate beauty, namely, divine beauty 8 true beauty comprises a conjunction of moral, spiritual, intellectual, and even physical characteristics 9 mimesis 10 the universe emanates from the superior divine world 11 meta-aesthetics 12 Ibn Rushd light and brightness 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. understands that both the earthly sphere and the divine sphere are in a reflexive relationship underpinned by the principle of emanation. does not necessarily produce formal beauty but opens a cognitive path 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. 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. stems from the licit enjoyment of the beautiful 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.