al-Qarṭājannī

Tunisian scholar

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In Islamic arts: Achievements in the western Muslim world
… (died 1064) and later by al-Qarṭājannī (died 1285) in Tunis. Ibn Ḥazm (died 1064), theologian and accomplished writer on pure love, has already been mentioned.
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In Islamic arts: Early Islamic criticism
…composed by the Tunisian critic al-Qarṭājannī (13th century), and this was carefully studied by the German scholar Wolfhart Heinrichs in Arabische Dichtung und griechische Poetik (1969). This study analyzes al-Qarṭājannī’s theories in relation to Aristotle’s theories of poetics. (Heinrichs, who was at the time his study was published one of…
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