Modern Spanish Arabization and the attractiveness of Islamic civilization in Al-Andalus

Dr. Mohammed Al Ammarti continues his research in the field of Arabization and Andalusian studies with a new publication titled "Modern Spanish Arabization and the Attraction of Islamic Civilization in Andalus, A Reading of the Works of the Arabizer Emilio García Gómez." The book was published this year by Dar Al Janan for Publishing and Distribution – Amman – Jordan. It consists of 201 pages of medium size and is dedicated to the soul of his late teacher, the late Dr. Milouda Al Hasnawi, the beloved of Andalusian research / Granada. The author relied on a plan divided into an introduction, three chapters, and a conclusion. The introduction was dedicated to clarifying the importance and uniqueness of the topic. The first chapter: addressed the biography and culture of Gómez in a documentary study, clarifying the main stages of his life, mentioning the most important events he experienced, and also focusing on the cultural, scientific, and diplomatic activities that Gómez accomplished with proficiency. It also reviewed the most productive years of his scientific and life journey. The second chapter: reviewed Gómez's convictions, positions, and visions regarding translation in general, and especially the translation of literary works. It studied some of his opinions and perceptions of the translation act, how translation should be, as concepts, convictions, and as a network of relationships in which the translator interacts with the recipient and the translated text. The chapter concluded that Gómez saw translation as a creative act, not just a dry technical task. The third chapter: was dedicated to Gómez’s translation of Andalusian poetry, its manifestations, and levels. It addressed his pioneering stance in translating Andalusian poetry and enriching the modern Spanish poetic scene with remarkable and unique Andalusian models, especially the Generation of 27 in Spain. It also monitored the levels of his translation of Andalusian poetry in its classical traditional manifestations (the ode), as well as in its new forms (muwashahat and azjāl), which emerged in Islamic Spain due to factors of development, contact, influence, and mutual impact. A detailed methodological study was included on his approach to translating each of these poetic manifestations separately. These are, therefore, the most important topics and issues that the chapters of this book attempted to address regarding the subject of modern Spanish Arabization and Andalusian civilization, based on a methodological perspective that views this subject as a field of study, communication, and interaction between two neighboring peoples, the Arab and the Spanish, rather than a field of conflict and the creation of opposing cultural fronts.