Abu Mohammed al-Qasim al-Sijilmasi

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]

References

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