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|b Jacques Berque and Andre Miquel's Visions of the Arabian Novel" is presented by Professor Dr. Salima Loukam in a dextrous critical reading of the discrepancies in the orientalist French view of the Arabian novel. Besides what Jacques Berque is characterized with of a special relation to the Arabian Western region by birth and culture, the refined European centrality remains present in his reading of the circumstances of the Arabian novel; never does he approach it except through a historical sociological perspective in search for what he calls the meeting between several tributaries in the Egyptian history in particular. Andre Miquel, however, expressed his teacher's concealment when he assured the connection between the development of the Arab novel and Occidentalism. The truth is that poetry was the Arabs' literature but the novel and drama were the innovations of Rome and the West. For this reason, observing the development of the novel represents a criterion for the dominance of Occidentalism over the Arabian literature, which is still producing, as the orientalists view it, a "prosaic literature" that never rises or has never risen to the level of the novel except rarely. How could a mental or spiritual subjective state at the best of their assessment be capable of endurance in the world of universal knowledge all those years; besides, those whose experiences are subjective their say mostly never departs away from their state; thus, neither Universe, nor stars and galaxies, mountains, creations, phases of creations, rhetorical miracles, mathematical, or scientific that are still baffling the minds till today exist Actually, the Muslims' reality resulting from the rule of the unjust wrongdoers is the cause why some modernists' search for some change, they have failed to accomplish in reality; the Quran, the Revelation and the Prophet are beyond one's grasp in the world of Muslims. Those who deeply perceive the Quran particularly the mystic people of the message Ahl Al-Bayt (Peace be upon them) can realize the injustice made to the Prophet whether by some of those who relate themselves to him (May peace be upon him), or by those who undertake the interpretation of his prophecy as a phenomenon using the method of the western science of sociology that does not basically believe in the supernatural.
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