Mayor in the merits and etiquette of poetry

"The mayor in the benefits, etiquette and criticism of poetry" by Abu Ali Al -Hassan bin Rashiq Al -Qairouni. The book of Nafis, collected the best of what was said in the meanings of poetry and its merits, and accordingly, the fame of its owner, and with it his name was popular, and his reputation was spread. This book was widely spread and good acceptance, which prompted scholars with the praise of Ibn Khaldun, where he said: The book of the mayor is the book that was unique in this industry and gave it its right and no one was written before it or after it like it. The value of the critical and rhetorical (mayor) was evident in what Ibn Rashik chose for his book, most of which were in criticizing poetry alone, his structure, history, and related weight and rhyme, artistic images, pronunciation and meaning, where he balanced them, even if his words suggest the second weighting of the first. And it came with examples in the publication and made, and followed with opinions in Abi Tammam, Al -Bahtari, Ibn Al -Mu''taz and Bashar.