Granada of the last days

A brief about the novel Granada the Last Days - an Andalusian novel. How wonderful is the writer of the novel Walid Saif, the clever literary man. He has benefited, entertained, and inspired. Every line in "Granada.. the Last Days" urges awareness to draw from history what guides us today in our miserable present, where all points of guidance and reasoning are lost. How similar is the situation of Abu Abdullah Al-Saghir to ours today. Walid Saif elevates with his easy yet profound style and his unparalleled dramatic sense to a level of creativity where the reader is subtly drawn in a way that makes him unable to distinguish between the time of the novel and the time of reading it. Even though we know the story of Abu Abdullah and the fall of Granada, we are unable to escape the grip of the suspenseful style in which the novel was written, so the reader does not get bored or tired of flipping pages, from the first page to the last, from the first word to the last word, hoping to come across a wisdom from the Sultan's judgments, or a saying from the common folk, or a emotional state from the states we feel and which Walid Saif excels in expressing. Whoever reads "Granada.. the Last Days" is struck with amazement, marveling at the ability of the Arabic language to explore the depths of souls and pursue great meanings, then bring them out into the world of speech in a smooth manner without distortion or complication. It is true that the historical depth and dramatic sense give the novel a color that distinguishes it and elevates it to the ranks of wonderful literary creativity; and more accurately, Walid Saif practices on the reader a magic, a lawful magic, the magic of language. Few are the spaces in the novelistic realm that allow for philosophical reflection as much as Walid Saif's novels do.