Abu Mohammed al-Qasim al-Sijilmasi

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Abu Mohammed al-Qasim al-Sijilmasi (Arabic: أبو محمد القاسم السجلماسي; died 1304) was an important literary scholar from Morocco and the author of Al-Manza al-badi fi tagnis asalib al-badi (The Striking Course in Categorising the Forms of the Rhetorical Figures).[1] In this book of literary theory he classifies the figures of speech under ten main categories and various sub-categories.[2][3]

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  1. ^ ed. Allal al-Ghazi, Rabat 1980
  2. ^ Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 61, The School of Oriental and African Studies., 1998, p. 18
  3. ^ Bruce Fudge, "Tadmin, The notion of "Implication" according to al-Rummani", in: Wolfhart Heinrichs, Beatrice Gruendler, Michael Cooperson, Classical Arabic humanities in their own terms: festschrift for Wolfhart Heinrichs on his 65th birthday, p. 487