Download or read book Beauty in Arabic Culture written by Doris Behrens-Abouseif and published by Princeton Series on the Middle East. This book was released on 1999 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the Arabic discourse on beauty. The author searched for her evidence in a wide variety of sources, such as the Qur'an, legal, religious and Sufi texts, chronicles, biographies, belle-lettres, literary criticism, and scientific, geographic and philosophical literature.