The Role of Arab-Islamic Civilisation in the Renaissance of Europe
Journal Title: Research Journal Social Sciences (Online) - Year 2015, Vol 4, Issue 2
Abstract
The foundation of Islam is on knowledge. It candled the light of knowledge in the darkness of Jahiliyah. Its first revelation came with the word “Read.” In its light the Messenger of Allah instituted ‘Dar-e-Arqam’ at Makkah and ‘al-Suffah’ at Madinah. From there the splendor of knowledge spread out of Arabian Peninsula to Persia and Rome. In the Umayyad period Islam reached to Europe where the West remained under the authority of Christianity/ Catholicism for more than one thousand years, where scientific knowledge was suppressed. This period is known in the history for ‘dark ages’. The criterion for Truth and Knowledge, according to Catholics school of Christianity, was Church. Anyhow, Islam approached Europe through Italy from Muslim Spain. There the Muslim Arabs established several Universities where the non-Muslims, too, had the opportunities to acquire knowledge. The members of royal families such as Italy etc. studied in these institutions. Learning, speaking and writing was a matter of pride for them. As Arabic was medium of instruction and research for academic writings, a number of church members would prefer to speak and write in Arabic. The Muslim civilisation not only gave new life to the ancient Greek Philosophy and literature, it also introduced new sciences, and revived other forgotten sciences. This civilisation gave Egypt its glorious position. It was the result of this newly established civilisation that it took out Europe from the dark ages. The movement of learning sciences from the Muslims played influential role in the renascence of Europe. The European countries adopted Muslim philosophy, modern sciences such as medical sciences, Astronomy, meteorology, chemistry and several other sciences. This article, after getting into brief overview of the dark ages of Europe, the beginning of Islamic Civilisation, its reach into Spain will be addressed. The main theme of this article is the influence of Arab Muslim civilisation over European countries in different fields of sciences.
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MUHAMMAD IZHARUL-HAQ
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