Hispano-Arabic Literature and the Early Provencal Lyrics.

.”As the distinctive contribution of Islamic Spain to Arabic literature, the strophic muwashah and zajal are still viewed by some as a development from putative Romance prototypes. No less than seven theories of origin of the Provençal lyrics have been proffered, foremost among them being the Arabic origins theory. This book lets the strophic muwashah tell its own tale of a natural development in the context of classical Arabic literature”.