Consolidating and expanding arguments and conclusions he has made in two articles in English and a book in Arabic, Abdulla investigates the similarities in the ideas and critical criteria of two the important critics. Longinus wrote Peri Hupsous (On the Sublime) in the first or third century AD. Al-Qadi al Jurjani wrote Al-Wasata bayna al-Mutanabbi wa Khusumihi (The Mediation Between al-Mutanabbi and his Adversaries) perhaps after the murder of the poet al-Mutanabbi in 965 AD/354 AH. His goal is to clarify the context and interaction between the complexity of Arabic critical thought in relation to commonly accepted ideas of the hegemony and complexity of Latin and Greek criticism. The text is double spaced. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR