Mª Florencia FERNÁNDEZ LLAMAS

Original title: Representaciones de la ciudad ideal en el imaginario del islam medieval

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Keywords: Al-Fārābī, Ibn Rušd, Islamic cities, Koran.

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.).