علماء المشارقة ببلاد الغرب الإسلامي و دورهم في الحركة الفكرية (140-668 ه 757-1269 م)‎

Abstract EN

The title of this academic article discusses the framework of a civilized communication between East and Maghreb Islamic in the middle Ages.

It studies the scientific presence of the Orient in the Maghreb, contrary to what had been frequent in this type of historical studies that focused on highlighting the results of the Maghreb scientific trip to the East on Islamic civilization.

It is necessary to have a look at the history of the Maghreb relations, which proves that the Orientals were always the initiators of the establishment of relations with the Maghreb, mainly in the pre-Islamic conquest.

As a result, a tide of Muslims migration came from the Orient through different historical periods and from different geographical areas.

The Maghreb henceforth had been the cradle of the East via man’s migrations from times immemorial, and his relations was consolidated by the Islamic presence which gave opportunity to the immigration to flourish throughout the military conquest at the beginning, and then the individual waves as: the advocates of doctrines, religious thinkers, politicians and Oriental governor families.

And after the Maghreb became the second largest pole of the Islamic world, which had strengthened the influx of people with their culture and science to the region, it was necessary to know the biographies of the expatriates and know the extract reasons of their conversion to the West.

Moreover, it is always crucial to have a historical knowledge about their socio-political rank within the governors and scientists of the Maghreb, besides their role in the intellectual movement through the expanding of their sciences and arts.

They also brought with them loads of books, personal writings and other Eastern people’s writings.

The Oriental migrants aimed at exposing the impact of the revitalization of their intellectual movement in the Maghreb.

They even came to address several points; the most important one used to be the process of acculturation, i.e.

a research on the influences of the Oriental cultural _that came with scholars pertaining to different fields_ on the Maghreb countries.