TY - JOUR T1 - The Esssence and Quality of Poetry in Farabi’s his two Poetic Treatises: Kituboshe’r and Fi Qawanin Sena’ato Sho’ara TT - چیستی و چگونگی شعر از نگره فارابی با تأکید بر دو رساله شعری وی: مقاله فی قوانین صناعه الشعراء و کتاب الشّعر JF - kimiahonar JO - kimiahonar VL - 5 IS - 20 UR - http://kimiahonar.ir/article-1-776-en.html Y1 - 2016 SP - 75 EP - 87 KW - types of poems KW - Farabi KW - mimesis N2 - In the beginning of logic’s entrance to the zone of Islamic thought, philosopher`s problem was to answer what the poetry was; because they thought poetry was a part of logic. They tried to explain it and find out what the meaning of a poem was. Farabi is one of these philosophers. He explained poetry and determined its position. Farabi’s point of view encompasses the elements of poetry. Little attention has been made to this viewpoint of Farabi by scholars. This paper aims to know how Farabi defines poetry and what types of poetry are there and what the meaning of mimesis is in Farabi`s point of view. M3 ER -