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What makes language beautiful? Arabic Poetics offers an answer to what this pertinent question looked like at the height of the Islamic civilization. In this novel argument, Lara Harb suggests that literary quality depended on the ability of linguistic expression to produce an experience of discovery and wonder in the listener. Analyzing theories of how rhetorical figures, simile, metaphor, and sentence construction are able to achieve this effect of wonder, Harb shows how this aesthetic theory, first articulated at the turn of the eleventh century CE, represented a major paradigm shift from earlier Arabic criticism which based its judgement on criteria of truthfulness and naturalness. In doing so, this study poses a major challenge to the misconception in modern scholarship that Arabic criticism was 'traditionalist' or 'static', exposing an elegant widespread conceptual framework of literary beauty in the post-eleventh-century Islamicate world which is central to poetic criticism, the interpretation of Aristotle's Poetics in Arabic philosophy and the rationale underlying discussions about the inimitability of the Quran.

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Arabic poetry --- Poetics --- History and criticism --- Abū Tammām Ḥabīb ibn Aws al-Ṭāʾī, --- Criticism and interpretation --- -Poetics --- -Poetry --- Arabic literature --- History --- -Technique --- Abu Tammam Habib ibn Aws al-Ta'i --- -Criticism and interpretation --- -History and criticism --- -Abu Tammam Habib ibn Aws al-Ta'i --- Abū Tammām Ḥabīb ibn Aws al-Ṭāʼī, --- Abū Tammām, --- Abū Tammām al-Ṭāʼī, --- Abu Temmâm, --- Tāʼī, Abū Tammām, --- Ṭāʼī, Abū Tammām Ḥabīb ibn Aws, --- أبي تمام حبيب أوس الطائى، --- أبي تمام حبيب بن أوس الطائي --- أبو تمام حبيب بن أو س الطائي، --- أبو تمام حبيب بن أوس الطائي --- أبو تمام حبيب بن أوس الطائي، --- أبو تمام حبيب بن أوصل طائي --- أبو تمام حبيب بن اوس الطائي، --- أبو تمام حبيب بن عوس الطاعي --- ابو تمام حبيب بن أوس الطائ --- ابو تمام حبيب بن اوس الطائي، --- ٱبو تمام، حبيب ابن اوس الطائيي. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Arabic poetry - 750-1258 - History and criticism --- Abū Tammām Ḥabīb ibn Aws al-Ṭāʾī, - fl. 808-842 - Criticism and interpretation --- Abū Tammām Ḥabīb ibn Aws al-Ṭāʾī, - fl. 808-842