Arabic poetry
                                                        
                                                                                                            
                                                            Arabic letters shapes
                                                        
                                                                                                            
                                                            Arabic letters characteristics
                                                        
                                                                                                            
                                                            Al-alta'reef
                                                        
                                                                                                            
                                                            multidimensional contingency table
                                                        
                                                                                                            
                                                            contingency measurements.
                                                        
                                                                                                                                                                                         
                                                                        
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                                        The purpose of this paper to discriminate between the poetic poems of each poet depending on the characteristics and attribute of the Arabic letters. Four categories used for the Arabic letters, letters frequency have been included in a multidimensional contingency table and each dimension has two or more levels, then contingency coefficient calculated.
The paper sample consists of six poets from different historical ages, and each poet has five poems. The method was programmed using the MATLAB program, the efficiency of the proposed method is 53% for the whole sample, and between 90% and 95% for each poet's poems.