TY - BOOK AU - U. Vermeulen AU - D. de Smet TI - Philosophy and Arts in the Islamic World: Proceedings of the Eighteenth Congress of the ''Union Europeenne des Arabisants et Islamisants'' held at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (September 3 - September 9, 1996) SN - 9068319779 PY - 1998/// CY - Leuven PB - Peeters KW - Proceedings KW - Conference KW - Collection of Papers KW - Literature KW - Philosophy KW - Linguistics KW - Epigraphy KW - Art N2 - The volume contains 26 contributions to literature, philosophy, linguistics and epigraphy in Islamic culture, ranging from pre-Islamic poetry to contemporary prose, from the Ihwan as-Safa to the theology of Mawdudi, from lexicography to epigraphy. These papers were read at the Eighteenth International Congress of the Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants, organized by the Catholic University of Leuven (KUL) from 3 to 10 September 1996. A second volume of proceedings, that appears along with this one (OLA 86), is more concerned with questions of actuality and political organisation, including Christian minorities in the Arab world, in their relation to the Muslim environment. As such the two volumes put together, will provide to the world of learning, we may say, an overall picture of the current scientific investigations about Islamic culture and society ER -