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