The influence of Arabic culture on European Medieval : romance and poetry

Abstract EN

The present study traces the Arabic influences on the literary development of medieval poetry and romance (originally verse narratives of love and chivalry).

It aims to highlight areas of such contributions in some of the greatest European Medieval Romances ( E.M.R) and poetry, and link them to their counterparts in Arabic Literary Tradition (A.L.T).

It provides an analytical review of Menocal‟s book and some of the related arguments by western scholars, who support the Arabist theory, and confess the west indebtedness to Arabic culture.

Conclusively Translation was the initiative media for such peculiar cultural and literary interchange.

It played a tremendous role in the awakening of Medieval Europe, and its later upheaval