Long before Cesare Bollugia
ambitious to unite Spain, Naples, and Rome, the Abbasid Caliphate had been in
control of Western civilization in Europe. Yes, Andalusia in the
7th century AD has been the center of civilization with Cordoba as one of the
prominent cities. At this
time, in Spain, Christians are immersed into what is known as the Mozarabic
Culture (Dr. Hamid Fahmi Zarkasyi). Islam
is the dominant culture that may have contributed greatly to the birth of a new
view of life in the West.
Prior
to the 7th century, Western civilization has indeed been inherited from the
Greeks and Romans. However,
sophisticated Muslim worldview and more rich knowledge of what is contained in
the Latin world, has given stimulus to the rise of the ideology, intellectuality,
and imagination of medieval European society.
Then, in the 10th century AD,
wheel rolling back civilization. Rotating steady and strengthen
the Christian army ambition to return to the glory which he inherited from
Roman civilization, while continuing to enrich the heritage of world
civilization with Islam: aspiration and enthusiasm for life.
Transfer
the live of view
Civilization is formed when
the constituent elements that include factors accumulate material and
immaterial in such a way in a short time. And
indeed, the forerunner of the wheels of civilization from the time of the
Abbasid Caliphate to Christian Europe has been going on since the Islamic
civilization reached its glory. Of course, just as the
Ibn Khaldun: "When a people have reached the point of civilization, then
nobody could awaited addition to its destruction" (Mujahideen Muhayyan).
When Islamic civilization that
reached its peak, western aspirations of Muslims to enrich their worldview. Lives of the people with intellectual and
sophisticated view of life in the shade of the Islamic civilization, which is
felt and seen by the European through and visit their diplomatic relations, has
given rise to the embryo changes. And these embryos develop when the people of Europe
realize that they can absorb the aspirations and spirit of Muslim life by
transferring and assimilating the books of philosophy and Islamic science. In
addition to stories and poems were transmitted orally, many Muslim scientific
works translated by the West. This
enthusiasm is so great-monastery to monastery Europe, especially Santa Marie de
Rippol, on the 12th and 13th century AD manuscript has storage space for a
large number of Muslims to their scientific work translated. Thus, they can explore science contained in the
libraries of Islam. In
fact, for the smooth running of the translation process, the kings of Europe
established a school for translators in Toledo, just after Christian forces
recaptured the city in 1085 AD
So no wonder, if the works of
medieval European scientists could not be separated from the works of
translation from Arabic.Historians note that the
development of Western Europe in the mid 13th century is a combination of
elements, called Greco-Arabic-Latin. In other words, the mastery of the language that
characterizes the works of philosophy and science of the time, has opened the
gates of the intellect and the western way of life, and make the people of
Europe, once again, as the ruler of Western civilization, which is more rich in
scientific works andconcepts of the Islamic
worldview. Once again,
"just" because of the language ...
Language, forming the arms of
civilization
History
of a civilization begins when the language has evolved its constituent
communities. Archaeologists itself
establish that history began when society has known writings. It refers to the written
evidence is found. Interim period before
the written evidence is categorized as prehistoric. And writing, is evidence
that language comprehension is a growing community.
Language, according to Muhayyan
Mujahideen, a form born of the workings of the brain, which is thought. The
brainchild of a variety of shapes. Some are
born as art, philosophy, mathematics, astronomy, and so on. The birth
of the results of this thinking help humanity understand the moral values,
religion, the universe, including his true identity. Because art
is the language of our feelings and thoughts. Philosophy
is the language of the deepest values of life and living. Mathematics is the language of symbols for objects and
events around us. Similarly
astronomy, is a language that helps us understand the universe, as well as our
identity.
So the development indicates the
rise of the language of a people. This evolving mindset, enables man to actualize
themselves in such a way as to develop the immaterial factors such as rules,
moral values and beliefs (religion). Immaterial factors, supported by material factors such
as geological factors, geographical, and economic, accumulate to form a
civilization.Because it's no wonder, when the
only developed nation that bahasanyalah, which is able to form a human
existence, called civilization.
Generating Islamic
civilization
Mastery over the
language does have an important role for the formation of a civilization. Therefore, it is not
possible to revive the language of a civilization that had drowned.
Ibn Khaldun defines civilization
as the pinnacle of cultural achievement ladder. And a spokesman for culture, language becomes a very
powerful tool for spreading the culture of the speakers of the language. When
languages have made the culture of a nation into a global culture, the
culture of the nation will color the joints civilization.
But the Islamic civilization,
not just a collection of culture.Civilization is built upon the
apostles ”millah” worldview that contains the potential to blow up its
constituent humans. Muslims need to unite immediately languages, and
raised the height of the glory of civilization with language. To
that end, efforts to unify the language of the policy must be followed up with
efforts to speak.
During the cold war, the Soviet
Union and the United States in a world polarized into the motor block west and
a block east. But in
reality, the Soviet Union was not able to put the Russian language equal to
English in the international arena. So that
American popular culture over popular culture coloring origin of civilization
than the Soviet Union. History also indicates the failure of the Japanese and
German military during World War II as a result of the absence of the policy
language. So the Japanese or German culture does not contribute
significantly in the coloring of civilization.
Now, it was time for Muslims to
dye civilization again. Because the
Muslim worldview that rests on the Quran, should be the entity of human
civilization. In order
for civilization, become truly civilized. (Aan)
This is one of my article that published in "buletin Integral" a few years ago. After re-read it, I found interesting to publish it in my blog. How is your opinion about it content?
