النقد الأدبي في عهد الخلفاء الراشدين

Abstract

The literary criticism during the era of the Rightly Guided Caliphs did not have an independent and clear concept in the minds of Arab scholars, but rather went through a primitive stage far from codification. However, this period formed a fundamental cornerstone and an important beginning for the development of the science of literary criticism in establishing the rules that we have today. The research focused on some of the critical positions and issues that the Rightly Guided Caliphs put in place to establish the science of criticism. These critical positions and issues were the beginning of the emergence of some critical standards and criteria with a religious form. In this period, some critical standards and criteria with a religious character and consistent with the poetic content of Arab criticism emerged. These religious standards formed the basis for the development and systematization of the science of literary criticism in later eras. Despite the fact that criticism during the era of the Rightly Guided Caliphs was in an initial stage far from codification, it formed an essential nucleus and an important beginning for the evolution of the science of literary criticism, laying the fundamental foundations and the first criteria and approaches of literary criticism in the Arab heritage.