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Arabic Literary Criticism from the Age of Jāhiliyyah to the 5th Century Hijrī

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ʿArabic literary criticism went through important phases from the Ignorance (Jāhiliyya)
period to the 5th century AH (1009 AD), and poetry took a higher place than prose in ʿArabic
literary criticism. During the Ignorance period, which is the oldest known history of ʿArabic
literature, improvised literary criticism for grammatical errors and sometimes wrong words
changed with the advent of Islām, and religious criteria and principles played an important
role in literary criticism in the first period of Islām. In this period, the ʿArabic language
became more fluent and subtle by uniting around the Quraysh dialect with the effect of the
style and expression of the Qurʾān, and the ʿArabs united around Islām. The Umayyad
calīphs and their rulers, who opened their doors to poets during the Umayyad period,
supported ʿArabic poetry and combined their perspectives on poetry in the Ignorance and
early Islamic period. During the Abbāsid period, from the 3rd century AH (816 AD),
individual literary criticism books were written, and certain rules were set in ʿArabic literary
criticism, and a century later, in the 4. century AH (m. 913), traditionalist, innovative and
conciliatory schools emerged in ʿArabic literary criticism.

 

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