The definition of poetry between Aristotle and Averroes

Through this study, we try to reread Averroes' summary of Aristotle's "poetics" according to a new point of view deviating from most of the dominant approaches that simply compare the two books by considering the summary of Averroes as a falsification of the original, and a misinterpretation of its content concerning tragedy, comedy, and epic poetry. The difference between the two conceptions that of Aristotle and that of averroes on the notion of poetry is reflected through the comparison between two central concepts in the two books: the origin and the summary, The Mimesis (the poetic imagination according to averroes) and the narratives (The fables according to Aristotle). Through this comparison we can discover the break between two points of view: The Aristotelian and Greek-Romanian point of view which perpetuate the confusion between poetry and tragedy, comic and epic, or theater in general, and the Arab point of view (and of course averroes's point of view) which is faithful to the notion of pure or lyrical poetry.