The Arabic novel and the narrative of the conflict in andalusia

Abstract

This research tends to explore “The Arab novel and the mirror image of the conflict in Andalusia”. The matter includes a set of Arabic novels which dealt with elegy and lamentation about Andalusia. These works certainly combine the imaginary and In this regard, we mention: A phone from Andalusia (Ali Al-Jarim), Al-Bayt Al-Andalusi (Wassini Al-Araj), Hawamim (Abdullah bin Arafa), Radwa Ashour (Granada, Part 1), the historical, employing them both as a resource to set an index of common events occurring either in the past and or in the present. Its aim is to search for oneself and know the other, or to introduce the other - as George Tarabishi says -; as the novels often define strategies and hierarchies that govern the relationship between Ego/Other .The latter differs from it in belief, behavior, customs and thought The research is motivated by the need to identify the representations of the civilizational conflict that extends between the East and the West until the present time.