The Downfall of Andalusian Cities in The Andalusian Poetry

Abstract

Obviously, the downfall of Andalusian cities caused people a lot of apprehension, fear, anxiety and disturbance. This very downfall resulted in economic hardships and that’s due to the high cost of living, plundering, and the lack of food to the extent that people were impelled to live corpses. Besides diseases spreaded everywhere. Consequently, there was an increase in the number of refugees and immigrants seeking for shelters , security and protection. Thus, "the waves" of the internal immigration increased particularly towards the Kingdom of Granada. It is noted also that the inhabitants of a certain city left it as soon as it fell down in the hand of the Spanish, and they were forced to move into another city if fallen down again, as if they were quitting Al-Andalus bit by bit and eventually forever. This study, hereby, aims to investigating the psychological meanings like fear and apprehension which were haunted by the Andalusian people as portraited by the Andalusian poetry in two stages: the first is during the time of the city siege and then its downfall , and the second is after the time of quitting the city itself. It aims also to investigate the reflections of their internal psychological experiences on their behaviors in the new reigns they left to lived in.