The current research criticizes a classical critical text that appeared in (The Book of
Al- Aghani) with two supportive clues: it is reflection to (Musa’b Ibn Abdullah al-Zubeiri),
in which it handles the poetry of (Umar Ibn Abi Rabiaa) and highlig
hts his position among
contemporaries and peers.
This research describes (Musa’b’s) text: it discloses the style, analyses the
constituents, interprets the critical terms and viewpoints, tends to pursue the implications
through scrutinizing the proposed poetical coexistences, up towards conceptualizing the
emerging critical insight-being a critical insight that represents a creative approach within
the critical thinking of Arabs. This is due to that the fact that Musa’b’s legacy stands as the
primordial classical critical Arabic text that encompasses the receptor’s viewpoint in the
comprehensive intuitive experience. Nonetheless, it does not consider the influential
impressionistic rules that had been concurrent at that age sufficient, neither finds it
efficient to have one, two or three lines of verse to pinpoint its viewpoints, as had been the
custom. Rather, it studies the wholesome of Omar’s literary production (Umar’s
Anthology) being one single text in which he pours his expertise, thoughtfully penetrates
its essence in an attempt to uncover the secrets distinguishability, excellence over its
contemporary texts. Therefore, it stands as the first critical Arabic text that examines the
(stylistic uniqueness) that characterizes an outstanding creative figure via the creatorreceptor
interaction over the domain of the text.