İbn Sellâm el-Cumahî’nin Arap Edebi Eleştirisine Katkısı: Tabakât Özelinde Bir Analiz

Abstract

Tabaqat Fuhul Al-Shu‘ara (Classes of Champion Poets) of Ibn Sallam Al-Jumahi, one of the leading examples of literary criticism, is commonly referred to as a biography or literary history book. Although Ibn Sallam’s work contains a lot of historical data with objective and clear criteria, he debates topics like originality and imitation in the introduction of his book, and the idea of the classes of champion poets indicates that he basically implemented an activity of pure literary criticism. Based on this inference, our study aims to test the claim that Tabaqat is a primary source that had been applied in the art of literary criticism, and accordingly, it analyzes Ibn Sallam’s contribution to Arabic literary criticism. Therefore, a qualitative research method was used, and data were analyzed through content and descriptive analysis. Thus, the data on the aspect of Tabaqat, being related to literary criticism, were collected and evaluated from a different perspective than in previous studies. ABSTRACT Ibn Sallam Al-Jumahi (d. 231/845) is among the first grammarians, linguists and literary scholars of the Arabic language. His work, Tabaqat Fuhul Al-Shu‘ara , is one of the most eminent presentations of the literary materials in his era. His work includes a number of critical discussions such as the definition of literary criticism, originality, and imitation in Arabic poetry; classification of both Islamic and pre-Islamic poets; the falsification in the poetry transmitted by the rawis from pre-Islamic and early Islamic times; standards for literary works; and the phenomenon of plagiarism.