Abd Allah al-Tayyib al-Majdhub
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Abd Allah al-Tayyib al-Majdhub (d. 1424 AH / 2003 CE) was a Sudanese literary scholar, critic, and academic, renowned for his extensive study on classical Arabic poetry and poetics, al-Murshid ila Fahm Ash‘ar al-‘Arab wa-Sina‘atiha (The Guide to Understanding the Poetry of the Arabs and Its Craft) .
Life and Career
Abd Allah al-Tayyib was born in Sudan and pursued higher education in English universities after his early upbringing . He acknowledged his father as his primary early mentor, who instructed, guided, and critiqued his initial studies . Following the completion of his studies in Britain, he returned to Sudan to teach at the University of Khartoum .
Literary Work and Reception
Al-Tayyib is best known for his magnum opus, al-Murshid ila Fahm Ash‘ar al-‘Arab wa-Sina‘atiha, an extensive analysis of Arabic poetic meters, forms, and classical traditions . During the preparation of the work, he presented parts of it to the Egyptian man of letters Taha Husayn, who was deeply impressed and urged him to publish it, personally assisting in securing its printing in Cairo through the al-Halabi publishing house . Al-Tayyib expressed his gratitude to Taha Husayn in verse, praising his encouragement and mentorship . The manuscript was subsequently reviewed, corrected, and seen through the press by the scholar Mustafa al-Saqqa .
Parts of the subsequent volumes of al-Murshid were published as articles in the journal of the Academy of the Arabic Language in Cairo before being assembled into the complete edition . Contemporaries held al-Tayyib in high esteem; the Sudanese poet and scholar Muhammad Abd al-Qadir Karaf addressed him in verse as a standard-bearer of classical Arabic eloquence .
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al-Murshid ila Fahm Ashar al-Arab wa-Sinaatiha (The Guide to Understanding the Poetry of the Arabs and Its Craft) is an extensive critical and analytical work on classical Arabic poetry and poetics.