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