Qustaki al-Himsi | |
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Born | Aleppo, Ottoman Syria | February 4, 1858
Died | March 9, 1941 (aged 83) Aleppo, Syria (French Mandate) |
Occupation | Poet, writer, critic |
Nationality | Ottoman and Syrian |
Genre | Poetry, novel, essay |
Literary movement | Nahda |
Notable works | The Researcher's Source in the Science of Criticism The Mirror of Souls |
Qustaki al-Himsi (Arabic: قسطاكي الحمصي, ALA-LC: Qusṭākī al-Ḥimṣī; 1858–1941) was a Syrian writer and poet of the Nahda movement (the Arabic renaissance), a prominent figure in the Arabic literature of the 19th and 20th centuries and one of the first reformers of the traditional Arabic poetry.[1] With his book The researcher's source in the science of criticism, al-Himsi is considered to be the founder of modern literary criticism among the Arab scholars.[2][3]