SPANISH ARABISM AND ARABIC POETRY

Abstract

Any thought is a response to a certain intellectual concern that arises in a certain spatiotemporal context. In this sense, Spanish Arabism appears as a trend that aspires to give answers to questions of a cultural and historical nature at the same time, taking into account Spain's relationship with its own past and with the elements that have originated its singularity in the western world, especially in what refers to its links with the Arab component. The objective of this article is to analyze the vision of the Spanish Arabists of Arabic poetry, which constitutes one of the most important manifestations of culture. Our treatment of this subject starts from the problem of the nature and scope of this same vision; that is to say, we are concerned with finding out if the Arabists have been carried away by western parameters or have based themselves on particular criteria in their approach to Arabic literature.