Qustaki al-Himsi

Qustaki al-Himsi
Born(1858-02-04)February 4, 1858
Aleppo, Ottoman Syria
Died March 9, 1941(1941-03-09) (aged 83)
Aleppo, Syria (French Mandate)
OccupationPoet, writer, critic
NationalityOttoman and Syrian
GenrePoetry, novel, essay
Literary movementNahda
Notable worksThe 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]

  1. ^ Al-Jamahir newspaper:Qustaki al-Himsi (in Arabic) Archived August 18, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Al-Jamahir newspaper:The Son of Aleppo, Qustaki al-Himsi the Voyager Poet (in Arabic)
  3. ^ الكعبي, ضياء (2005). السرد العربي القديم. بيروت: المؤسسة العربية للدراسات والنشر. p. 445. ISBN 9953-36-784-1.

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