Sultan Bin Ali Al Owais Cultural Award (2017) Abu Al Qasim Al Shabi Award (2017)
Hammadi Hamida Sammoud (Arabic: حمادي صمود) (French: Hamadi Samoud) is a Tunisian academic, writer, historian, and linguist, who was born on June 25, 1946.[1] He is also a member of the House of Wisdom Foundation.[2]
Early life
Sammoud was born in Kelibia, Tunisia. He studied the persistence of philosophy and classical literature.[3] In 1972, he obtained a degree in Arabic language and literature from the college of arts and humanities in Tunisia, and in 1980, he received a PhD in the same major, his thesis was titled "Arabs’ Rhetorical Thinking: Its Principles and Development in the 6th Century".[4] After studying at the New Sorbonne University Paris 3, the University of Paris 8 and the Lumière University Lyon 2, he worked as a professor at the faculty of arts and humanities in Manouba.[3][5]
He was a professor from 1984 until 2008.[4] He was a teacher at the Higher Institute of Linguistics, which offered classes in linguistics, language sciences and rhetoric to university professors.[4] In addition, he participated in several scientific seminars in rhetoric, criticism and theories of literature. During his professional career, he supervised approximately 70 scientific research, 24 of which were doctoral theses.[4]
On November 12, 2012, he was appointed a member of the House of Wisdom Foundation.[6]
Sammoud received the “Literary Studies and Criticism” Award by Sultan Bin Ali Al Owais Cultural Foundation in recognition of his contribution to the field of contemporary Arabic criticism.[7]
Works
Arabs’ Rhetorical Thinking: Its Principles and Development in the 6th Century[8][9] (original: āltāfkyr ālʿrby ālblāġy: ōsosh w taṭwrh ēlā alqrn alsāds) (1981)
Poetry and Heritage: Poetic Awareness of Heritage (original: Aš-Šiʻr wa-t-turāt̲: maʻnā al-Waʻī aš-Šiʻrī bi-t-turāt̲) (1986)[9]
The Front and Back: The Confluence of Heritage and Modernity (original: ālwāǧh walqafā: fi tlāzwm āltwrāṯ wālḥdāṯa) (1988)
The Lexical and Poetic Theory of Arab Heritage Through Texts (co-authored with Abdul Salam Al Masdi and Abdul Qader Al Muhairi (original: Ān-nẓryā āl-lysānyā wš-šyʿryā fi āt-trāṯ ālʿrbi mn ẖilāl ān-nṣwṣ) (1988)
Pilgrims Most Important Theories on Western Culture from Aristotle Time to Today (original: Ahamm naẓarīyāt al-ḥujāj fī al-taqālīd al-Gharbīyah min Arisṭū ilá al-yawm) (1997)
Manifestations of Rhetorical Discourse (original: Min tajallīyāt al-khiṭāb al-balāghī) (1999)[10]
Manifestations of Literary Discourse: Theoretical Issues (original: Min tajallīyāt al-khiṭāb al-adabī: qaḍayā naẓarīyah) (1999)[11]
Manifestations of Literary Discourse: Practical Issues (original: Min tajallīyāt al-khiṭāb al-adabī: qaḍayā taṭbīqīyah) (1999)[12]
The Epoch of Taha Hussein (co-authored with Muhammed Al Qadi, Abdullah Soula, Muhammed Barcelona and Muhammed Al-Hadi Al-Tarabulsi) (original: Miʼawīyat Ṭāhā Ḥusayn) (2000)
Al-Jahiz on Rhetoric of Drama and the Issue of Literary Genres (original: Blāġt ālhāzl wmsālt Alaǧnās Aladabyā) (2002)
The Eloquence of “Al-intisar” in Ancient Arab Criticism: Abu Bakr's Letter to Muzahim Ibn Fatik as a Model (original: Balāġat “al-intiṣār” fī al-naqd al-ʻArabī al-qadīm: risālat Abī Bakr al-Ṣūlī ilá Muzāḥim ibn Fātik unmūd̲aǧan) (2006)[13]
My Way towards Freedom (original: Ṭarīqī ilá al-ḥurrīyah) (2017)[14]