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fand: "In the ten years that I was before Abu 'Amr, I never saw him use a verse of an Islamic poet as 'Hujjah/'9According to Professor Goldziher, the first expression to defend the Modern poet and to declare that the poets should be judged on their merits irrespect-.
In this connection, it is significant that Professor Kratchkovsky states the· 'following in his introduction to the Kitab al-Badi'oi Ibn al-Mu'tazz :12 "lbn al-Mu'tazz quotes fragments of nearly 200 poets; the choice of these quotations indicates a rejection of any predilection for the works of antiquity.
· · It would follow that if one came across a "Book ofthe Poets" which was prior to Ibn Qutaibah's work and which showed a marked interest in the Moderns, we would, following Goldziher and Kratchkovsky , be able to push back the date for this change still earlier into the gth century.
More• over, it is evident that this Grammarian interest would be a positive factor in paving the way for the acceptance of the Moderns, an acceptance which is to be indicated bv such works as the Kitab ash-Shi'r urash-Shu'ara of Ibn Qutaibah and th~ Eitab al-Badi' of lbn al-Mu'tazz.
Turning to the question of the ''Books of the Poets" prior to and contemporaneous with the Kitab ash-Shi'r of Ibn Qutaibah, I.
7° Ibn abi Tahir's Kitab al-lkhtiyarat Ashar ash-Shu'ora' included the following poets: Bakr b.