Al-Andalus, as a climax for Islamic civilization, arouses the interest of both literature and cinema. For that remarkable reason, the interest towards Andalus, fictionalized as an “ideal” more than an environment, appears in the second half of the 19th century in Turkish literature. This is a period through which Ottoman Empire kept declining and people tried to find means to sustain the Empire. Abdülhak Hâmid’s theatre play Târık yahut Endülüs’ün Fethi (1879) (Târık or The Conquer of Al-Andalus), in such a period for the Empire still holding the caliphate which is the key of an earthly authority of Islam, reaches a significance as an historical narrative in accordance with putting forward the terms like “conquest” and “heroism” on the basis of Andalus image. However, Hâmid combined the idealized Andalus image, and accordingly the themes “conquest” and “heroism” with earthly love, and the concept of love became a helpful pattern to idealize Andalus. Tunisian director Nacer Khemir’s movie The Dove’s Lost Necklace (1991) presents a similar Andalus idealization with a viewpoint from Arab world. Furthermore, similarly to Hâmid’s play, love becomes once again a helpful pattern in fictionalizing an ideal-Andalus. By revealing two different viewpoints from İslamic civilization, one of Abdülhak Hâmid, who is an Ottoman intellectual and Reform period author, and the other of Tunisian director Nacer Khemir, this article discusses how those two artists idealized the concept of al-Andalus and interpreted that idealization in the age they lived. Positioning the woman within the context of love as a helpful pattern in those artworks is the collateral subject to the article.
Primary Language | Turkish |
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Subjects | Literary Studies, Creative Arts and Writing |
Journal Section | Articles |
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Publication Date | December 27, 2020 |
Submission Date | July 24, 2020 |
Acceptance Date | November 26, 2020 |
Published in Issue | Year 2020 Volume: 20 Issue: 51 |