Ibn-Tha’lab and his book of Criticism “Qawaid al-Shi’r”: An Analytical Study

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Dr. M. Nurul Amin Sheikh Abstract: Abu’l Abbas Ahmed b. Yahya Ibn Tha’lab was a medieval Arabic critic in Arabic literature. He modified the trends of literary criticism and adopted a new trend of philosophy in Arabic literary criticism. His book was the most excellent and advanced among other books, because it highly estimated the aesthetic attitude towards literature and precisely reached the highest point in the new approach of literary criticism. He also noted and discussed the grounds on which various authorities based his doctrine on his book. He opined his discussion by giving the definition of poetry of merits and demerits of the foremost aspect of poetry on the basis of syntactic, thematic and prosodic characteristics. Click here to print/download PDF of this research paper Introduction Ibn Thalab as a critic has been judged and expressed the principles and Arabic literary criticism of figurative language including prosody, simile, syntactical and rhetorical devices. The mimetic aspects of poetry lie as much in the form of the speech as in its sense or meaning. He set aside the bases or roots of poetry; he boldly faces the fundamental objection of poetry: command, prevention, statement and question though it may have a residual theological branches are spring, praise, violent language, lament, expression of regret, equality of value, description women and relation of events. He occasionally also contains an attempt to define a concept. The bases is that of syntax; mo...