Ali Jawad Al Taher ( ar, علي جواد الطاهر; 1911?/1922? – 10 October 1996) was an
Iraqi critic and literary scholar. He was born and raised in
Hilla
Hillah ( ar, ٱلْحِلَّة ''al-Ḥillah''), also spelled Hilla, is a city in central Iraq on the Hilla branch of the Euphrates River, south of Baghdad. The population is estimated at 364,700 in 1998. It is the capital of Babylon Province ...
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Iraq. He received a PhD from
Sorbonne University in 1954, and published numerous critical studies during his lifetime. He won the inaugural
Al Owais Award in the "Criticism & Literary Studies" category in 1988–89.
Biography in Al Owais website
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Selected works
* ''Arabic Poetry in Iraq and Persia in the Seljuk Era''
* ''The Son and Seven Other Stories''
* ''The Lamiya of Al Tughrai''
* ''Al Tughrai
Mu'ayyad al-Din Abu Isma'il al-Husayn ibn Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Abd al-Samad al-Du'ali al-Kināni al-Tughra'i ( ar, العميد فخر الكتاب مؤيد الدين أبو إسماعيل الحسين بن علي بن محمد بن عبد الص ...
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* ''Modern Iraqi Fiction''
* ''Teaching Arabic''
* ''Mahmoud Ahmad Al Sayed''
* ''Observations on the Simplified Arabic Encyclopaedia''
* ''Literary Research Methods''
* ''Al Khouraimi: Poems''
* ''Al Jawahiri: Poems''
* ''Al Tughrai: Poems''
* ''Beyond the Literary Horizon''
* ''Encyclopedia of Arabic Publications''
* ''Modern Stories and Plays''
References
1922 births
1996 deaths
Iraqi critics
Iraqi literary historians
People from Hillah
Paris-Sorbonne University alumni
Iraqi expatriates in France
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