| Omani researcher completes thesis from Tunisian university |
Mohammed Al Aisari
MUSCAT Omani research scholar Badr Bin Hilal Al Yahmadi completed his doctoral thesis on ‘Ancient Literary Criticism Sources’ from the University of Manouba in Tunisia.
His thesis is the first comprehensive study dedicated to ancient criticism sources while all previous studies on the topic were limited to a specific period or pantheon.
For his thesis, Badr depended on and referred to almost all sources used by critics in ancient times. They included scientific, objective, moral, industrial and environmental sources of Arab critics.
Talking to Oman Tribune, he said ancient Arab critical techniques and rules constituted a unique genre branch of literature or even a branch of knowledge. These sources give a lot of information about the societies contemporaneous to them, he said.
“The objective of my study was to define the criticism sources employed by ancient critics and to explore their relations to one another and their social and historical significance in literary and social studies,” he said.
“My thesis, the first of its kind, is divided into three sections and each section into different chapters. The first section is dedicated to exploring and understanding the sources while the second section deals with their utility. The third section examines the relationship between these sources and ancient schools of criticism.”
He said his research had found that despite their rich and diverse sources, ancient literary criticism has preserved its identity.
Oman Tribune
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