The Three Cultures Foundation presents the book ‘Alandalus: East in the West’, by Emilio González Ferrín

Spain, once called Iberia and then Hispania, was largely formed from the Mediterranean. On this basis, Emilio González Ferrín develops the thesis that he presents in the pages of this book. He argues that this sea was the medium that allowed the continuity of the Greco-Latin civilisation of Antiquity, which persisted in Alandalus, one of the most advanced cultures of its time and a piece of the East in the West thanks to a kind of cultural homogeneity created along its shores. 

However, this cultural entity has always been seen in Spain, from our present day, as something strange, something that is either tiptoed over or used in favour of certain mythical narratives both in one sense (an idyllic past to return to) and in another (a ‘them’ to confront the ‘us’ of the Reconquest). 

In Alandalus. Oriente en Occidente, González Ferrín sets out to make a diverse and countercurrent reading of the history of our country, far removed from mythification and academicism. A reading that we will have the opportunity to share with the author himself (Islamologist, professor of Arab and Islamic Thought at the University of Seville and writer) in the presentation of the work, in a session that will take place at 18.00 h. in the Palacio de los Marqueses de la Algaba.