Mª Florencia FERNÁNDEZ LLAMAS

Representations of the ideal city in the imaginary of the medieval Islam

Representaciones de la ciudad ideal en el imaginario del islam medieval

Published in New Approaches in the Research on the Crown of Aragon: Cross-cultural Studies of Muslim West and the Mediterranean. New lights on research

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Analysis of the concept and the place of cities in the Islamic cultural sphere, starting with the analysis of city as it’s mentioned in the Quran, as the place where humans live in a society, generally corrupt, followed by several mentions of legendary cities cited in the literature, and finishing with the mention of ideals of city elaborated by Islamic philosophers (Ibn Rušd, Al-Fārābī, etc.).