Matching Pairs Beauty in Classic ArabicOnline version Views of four medieval Islamic philosophers by Karim Youssef 1 meta-aesthetics 2 Ibn Sina 3 the universe emanates from the superior divine world 4 mimesis 5 beauty 6 inner perception of the ultimate beauty, namely, divine beauty 7 Ibn Rushd 8 Ibn Hazm 9 the concept of beauty is apprehended in ideal and spiritual terms related to 10 true beauty comprises a conjunction of moral, spiritual, intellectual, and even physical characteristics 11 beauty 12 Ibn al-Haytham understands that both the earthly sphere and the divine sphere are in a reflexive relationship underpinned by the principle of emanation. that mold themselves into a kind of perfect being or one that tends toward perfection. has to be deduced from a systematic analytical approach of perceptible reality conceived as a coherent and ordered whole. light and brightness stems from the licit enjoyment of the beautiful 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 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 identifies itself with objective and observable notions of order, structural cohesiveness and physical harmony.