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In his meditations over the book "Andalusia in Arabist Views" by Dr. Mohammad Al Amarti, Dr. Mohammad Bilal included a broad chapter for debate which he calls "The Spanish Andalusians," which is a term derived in an attempt to distinguish the Andalusian studies about Arabism and orientalism and gives it its characterization it deserves, as the Spanish Arabists or most of them never approached the Islamic heritage in Andalusia from the same corner as the Arabists and the orientalists did because some of them used to be proud of it as being an indivisible part of their national heritage, while others discussed it as bridge to cross between two banks. Dr. Mohammad Ashmal is full of emendations on the valuable book which introduce a liberal trend from the classical orientalism on one hand and establish for a civilized dialogue with the closer West in its history and its geography starting from Spain. It is not necessary for the Arabian literature to identify with the western experience in the novel, yet it has to delve into its own experience derived from its environment; In fact, the orientalist insistence to make the western experience a goal and a criterion instead of giving each experience its own privacy is another example of the domination of the preoccupation with the western centrality and an aggression on our right in diversity culturally, literarily and environmentally.
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