Literary Criticism Issues in Collections of Ibn Hazam the Andalusian

Abstract

The andalusian litutatry criticism had known a remarkabl development during the fourth and fifth hijri centuries, and that wa s depending on its eastian counterpart (the eastian litutary criticism) in applyin its basic roots, and then it became independent to prove its existing, and that was the reason behind the increase of the Andalusianism, which means the pride of the Andalusian in their intellectual and literature creativity, This phenomeno emerged during the fourth and fifth centuries in kind of classes and translations books, and then it increased more and more  to be valid to a critic Imam lived in the late of the fourth century and the mid fifth Hijri century, this Imam known as Ibn Hazem, he played an important role in the development of a literature and critical Andalusian school This research aims to reveal the critical vision of Ibn Hazem through his critcs in all literary works, we attempt to discover this great outstanding figure who played a vital role in the florishment of literature in the Arabic and Islamic world . The Andalusian Imam Ibn Hazem who represents one of the greatest Andalusian outstanding figure with his friend Ibn chahid, they create the basis to a lot of studies and literary cases which were considered as a starting point and basis to many theories of the critics in the fifth century and the centuries that follows it.

Ibn Hazem the great outstanding figure, his love to knowledge leads him to rich the andalusian library by his studies which had a great impact on the literary and critics movement in Andalusia also it has the merit for it has the merit for developing an andalusian literary and criticism school.