IBN QUTAYBA’S UNDERSTANDING OF THE POEM AND HIS VIEW TO THE POET

What he has written shows that Ibn Qutayba is one of the writers who tried to put the theory of Arabic poetry. But how successful he is in this area We can judge his work with its internal consistency and with comparison his critics with ones of his time. This article was written to detect Ibn Qutayba’s place in the poetry criticism area considering his opinions about poets and poetry in his introduction to his famous book “al-Shi´r wa al-Shu´arâ”.