Cultural Criticism of Fadhil Al-Tamimi

Abstract

Fadhil Al-Tamimi is an influential literary critic in the Arab world, who has significantly enriched the Arab library with his critical efforts, particularly in the field of literary criticism. Al-Tamimi has presented a vast collection of books, research, and studies that criticize various literary genres, such as Story, Novel, Biography, and Journey, drawing from various critical approaches. In his critical readings of Story and Novel, Al-Tamimi employed cultural criticism, as evidenced by his analysis of Raghad Suhail's "Kalloush: a sound of joy and happiness" and Louay Hamza Abbas's "A Drop of Blood to Discover the Body." Similarly, in his study of Raghad Suhail's "I Loved a Donkey" and Saad Rahim's "The Bookseller’s Murder" and "A Woman’s Hymn ... Twilight of the Sea" Al-Tamimi relied on the foundations of cultural criticism. This study, conducted by Najah Sultan Kurdi from Al-Mustansiriya University's Arabic Language Department, under the supervision of Ahmed Mahdi Attallah, sheds light on Al-Tamimi's cultural criticism and its application in literary criticism.