The Organizational Principles in Ibn Sallām's Ṭabaqāt Fuḥūl al-Shuʿarāʾ

Because Ṭabaqāt Fuḥūl al-Shuʿarāʾ is the first book that has come down to us on Arabic literary criticism, ¹ it has received much attention from modern scholars in the East and the West alike. This attention is primarily focused on the views of Ibn Sallām (231/846) on literary criticism, and to a lesser extent on the criteria upon which he classified the 134 poets whom he selected for inclusion in his book.