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Ṭabaqāt fuḥūl al-shuʿarāʾ
work by Jumaḥī
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place in Arabic literary criticism
- In Arabic literature: Beginnings
…Ibn Sallām al-Jumaḥī; the latter’s Ṭabaqāt fuḥūl al-shuʿarāʾ (“Classes of Champion Poets”) categorizes poets by both period and theme without providing any principles for his judgments. It fell to their successors to provide such criteria and the theoretical justification for them. Ibn Qutaybah, for example, wrote a famous introduction to…
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