تجليات المكان في "خطرة الطيف في رحلة الشتاء و الصيف" للسان الدين بن الخطيب

Abstract EN

The research hilights the place in "Al-Shita’a and Al-Saif" journey for Lisan Al- Deen Bin Al-Khateeb.

The study attempts to justify the manifestation of place in Al- Khateeb’s jounrney.

Moreover, the article focuses on the place through dealing with the idea of belonging to the Andalusian place as well as on Lisan Al-Deen Bin Al-Khateeb’s interest in Travel Literature.

Furthermore, the research highlights Al-Khateeb’s spatial awareness in producing spatial symbols and embodying them in his journey as place plays an important role in his literature which consists of a collection of stories that contributes to depict historical portraits to his readers.

The research describes the nature of the place, the journey’s stages, and the dominant traditions of those people whom he visited in his journeys.

The article demonstrates that Al-Khateeb was interested in recording geographical information in the new areas and representing history in a realistic way.

He narrates stories about real people and presents these people in a literary text to show the beauty of place, as an important element in his literary texts.