Abstract
This article will describe the dynamism of history which lacks cognitive follow-up, based on the idea of conflict between the North and the South, and on the assertions that often partake of this relationship. These contentions are rooted in the dominant culture, and contribute to orienting this relationship and its history. Among such assertions this article focus on is the fact that "the enemy always comes from the South." The scholar will try to deconstruct such an idea through two axes: The first will be concerned with the way in which this assertion has been established in the Spanish political, military and religious literature, to the extent that it has become a permanent conviction through which a strategy for dealing with the southern neighbor- Morocco- has been elaborated. The second one will explore the fieldwork dealing with Spanish spies intrusion on Morocco in order to construct a knowledge capable of subverting this assertion. The scholar will investigate two diaries by Jorge de Henin (1604) and by Ali Bay al-Abbasi (1803).
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Akmir, Abdelouahed Director of the Center for Andalusian Studies and Civilizational Dialogue in Rabat
(2021)
"The enemy always comes from the south,"
SOROUD: The journal of Literacy Criticism: Vol. 4:
Iss.
1, Article 8.
https://doi.org/10.66499/6771-2605.1115
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https://scholarhub.univh2c.ma/soroud/vol4/iss1/8