Abu Mohammed al-Qasim al-Sijilmasi

Abu Mohammed al-Qasim al-Sijilmasi (Arabic: أبو محمد القاسم السجلماسي; died 1304) was an important literary scholar from Morocco and the author of Al-Manza al-badi fi tagnis asalib al-badi (The Striking Course in Categorising the Forms of the Rhetorical Figures).^[1] In this book of literary theory he classifies the figures of speech under ten main categories and various sub-categories.^[2][3]