The Spanish Orientalism in a Critical Perspective :Andalusia Thought by the Orientalist Angel Gonzalez Palencia as a Case

Abstract

The Spanish orientalism is considered to be one of the distinguished oriental streams which provided great services to the Arabic Islamic Heritage in fields like Thought ,Literature , and Sciences as far as collection , indexing , editing , publication , researching ,and translation of books and manuscripts are concerned since the 12^th C.AD. This is clearly significant in that  period related to Moslems residence  in Spain due to the fact that this historical era, being part of the present Spain, was prosperous scientifically and culturally adding a lot, not only to Spain, but also to Europe where people lived in the dark of  Ignorance, backwardness ,  and barbarism .As compared to Arabic Islamic Culture , it was shining in the whole world spreading all aspects of science.