[LifeStyle] Spanish official: Islamic civilization has a strong influence in our country

[Guest High King Eslam]

Despite the passage of more than five centuries since the end of the Arab presence in Spain, the features of Arab culture, language and art still remain there until now, resisting extinction, according to Jose Manuel Alba Pastor, director of the Spanish Institute of Cervantes in Cairo, during his participation in the International Cultural Week. Iberoamericana, currently held at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina.

Alba Pastor said in a press statement on Wednesday that the great influence of Islamic and Arab civilization in Spain is still present, and that the name of the Spanish capital “Madrid” is taken from an Arabic origin, which is the word “Hungarian”, which reflects and confirms the extent of Arab and Islamic interdependence and influence in his country.

The influence and interdependence between the Arab and Islamic civilization and Spain has many faces, which appear clearly in architecture, the arts, music and literature, as Alba Pastor says, “When you roam in Spanish cities from north to south, east and west, you find many landmarks that reflect and embody the extent and strength of this interdependence and influence, and there are many buildings The customs, features and traditions that exist in Spain come mainly from the Arab civilization, in addition to the fact that there are more than 3 thousand words spoken by the Spanish taken from the Arabic language.

The interdependence between Spain, Arabs, and Muslims does not stop at the borders of the Middle Ages, but rather extends to modern times, as Egyptians and Spaniards are similar in many life practices that express their love of life, staying up late, eating food and entertainment, ”according to Manuel Alba Pastor, who also spoke about the status of the city of Alexandria and what It possesses a unique heritage and civilization. It is a global intellectual center.

For his part, Taha Ziadeh, an employee of the media office at the Embassy of Spain, and a professor of press translation at the Faculty of Arts, Cairo University, told Asharq Al-Awsat: “There was a widespread belief in Europe that the origin of lyrical poetry there goes back to the Provençal region in southern France, but the Spanish orientalist Emilio Garcia Gomez, who was a member of the Academy of the Arabic Language in Cairo, and had great contributions to the history of Orientalism, changed this idea when he discovered (The outputs of the Andalusian Muwashahat), which is a collection of poetic verses written at the end of the muwashshah, and each of its stanzas ends with it, and after studying this The outputs, Gomez found, were written in Arabic, Spanish and Hebrew; This indicates that the history of this type of lyrical poetry in Europe goes back to Andalusia.

The importance of Gomez's discovery comes from the fact that he was a student of the dean of Arabic literature, Dr. Taha Hussein, and his contribution to the establishment of the Center for Islamic Studies in the capital, Madrid, during the forties. Ziada mentioned that the ancient link between Spain and ancient Egypt, where they shared one political unit during the time of the Roman Empire and the Abbasid state.

Source: Middle East

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