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|b The Andalusian Scholars’ heed to verify a poetic version is deemed to be another evidence which emphasizes their dazzling inspiration by the oriental cultural accomplishment. \ As they devoted their attention to attest it easterly and Andalusianwise, including its tenor and the devices of its formation. It unified their awareness of its impact in contriving the Andalusian Poetry, with its immensity, extensively distant-timed accomplishment that was vulnerable to alteration of image (shape), the infiltration of mistakes and contradicting views towards its elucidation. Those scholars had a variety of mediums and intelligent gestures were brought forth by them. And that reflected their sincere desire to estimate it to its original image (version). \ Their concern of the Oriental version (text) was more profound and comprehensive. Their inferential methods and giving preponderance were considerably objective more often, and were seldom afflicted by a bit of arbitrariness. This feature is quite obvious in “The Rousings of Abu Obeid Al-Bakry” to “Abu Ali Al-Kali” in his dictations to his disciples. \ And their attention has become crystallized in the text service in several features that were revealed explicitly in the verification of its predication, tracing back its accuracy, as cribbing it to its advocates and eliminating what got stuck in their names their agnominal their appellations of any perversion, distortions and adiposities according to the methods that are presented while correlating poetry with any outstanding incident or prevailing news, the restitution of poems to their divan or to their famous category. Those methods might recline on a reading with great gusto if baffled by the previous schemes. \ So their concern extended to include the emendation of mistakes that afflicted the poetic text’s language, style, rhythm and its purport as well. \ Besides, they perceived what the text comprised: peculiar language, tribal vocabulary, contextual apprehension and diversity of narrations which were subject to criticism and giving preponderance. \ Moreover, they were interested in the content of poetry which led them to clarify and criticize it, even though they anatomized the interpreters, in case they might fail to absorb or construe it. \ They searched for its roots and augmentations since they were aware, in many parts, of its originality of meaning (authenticity) or the level of in-taking and its approaches.
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