Background to the Theory of Arabic Origins

Authors

• M. Carl Gibson

Keywords

Provencal poetry, History, criticism, Arabic literature, Arabs, Spain, Catalan poetry, Spanish poetry

Abstract

In the late eighteenth century, Xavier Lampillas asserted that fourteenth-century Italian poets were influenced by the Spanish Arabic poetic style through the Provençal poets. Lampillas was not the first person to make this assertion, but his argument came at a time when the relative merit of Italian and Spanish was widely debated. Although his ideas were eventually discarded due to a lack of evidence, scholars are now revisiting this theory and are slowly beginning to substantiate it.

Recommended Citation

Gibson, M. Carl (1962) "Background to the Theory of Arabic Origins," BYU Studies: Vol. 4: Iss. 3, Article 4.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq/vol4/iss3/4