Concept of Civilisation
History of Islam Islamic Civilisation
Elements of Civilisation
• There are five key elements that make a society advanced enough to be considered a civilization.
• 1. Centralized Government
• 2. Organized Religion
• 3. Job Specialization and Social Classes
• 4. Arts, Architecture, and Infrastructure
• 5. Writing
The Earliest Civilisations
• The earliest known civilizations (as defined in the traditional sense) arose in Mesopotamia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in modern-day Iraq, Persia in modern-day Iran, the Nile valley of Egypt.
• The inhabitants of these areas built cities, created writing systems, learned to make pottery and use metals, domesticated animals, and created complex social structures with class systems.
Islamic terms of civilisation
Hadharah
Tamadun-Madaniyyah
Umran
Main Demand of Islamic Civilisation
• Islamic Civilization demands its followers to be the best of example for mankind, to other
Muslim, and also to non-Muslim.
• ‘You are the best of nation (people) evolved for mankind, enjoining what is right,
forbidding what is wrong, and believing in Allah.’ (Quran, Ali-Imran 3:110)
Topics 1
• The Islamic terms for civilisation
• The main sources of Islamic Civilisation
• The Administrative instutitions in Islamic Civilisation: Caliphate, Wazirate etc.
• Ibn Khaldun’s concepts of civilisation
• Social structure in Islamic Civilisation: Family, social classes
• Education in Islamic Civilisation: Maktabs, kuttabs, madrasas etc.
• Religious institutions in Islamic Civilisation: Mosques
• Social-Religious institutions in Islamic Civilisation: dargahs, takkas, zawiyahs etc.
• Science and knowledge in Islamic Civilisation
• Books and libraries in Islamic Civilisation
• The Translation of books from the other civilisation into Islamic environment
• Muslim cities: the case of Baghdad and Istanbul
Topics 2
• Islamic Civilisation and the Arabs
• Islamic Civilisation and the Turks
• Islamic Civilisation and the Persians
• Islamic Civilisation and the Indian Muslims
• Islamic Civilisation and the African Muslims
• Islamic Civilisation and the Balkan Muslims
• Turkish experiment of the Islamic Civilisation in the Ottoman Empire
• The Role of Women in Islamic Civilisation
• The Bayt al-Hikmah
• Development of Religious Uluum and Science in Islamic Civilisation
• The Position of Non-Muslims in Islamic Civilisation
• The Futuwwa Organization in the Abbasid Period
• The Causes of Decline for Islammic Cavilisation
Topics 3
• The Judical Instututions in Islamic Civilisation
• The Social cooperative institutions in Islamic Civilisation:
Waqfs
• The Organisation artisans and craftsmen in Muslim Lands:
the Futuwwa and Akhids.
• The Influence of Islamic Civilisation on Europe.
• The Influence of Islamic Civilisation on Russian Culture
• The Influence of Islamic Civilisation on Indian Culture
• The Influence of Islamic Civilisation on Balkan Culture
• The Current value of Islamic civilisation
• Is the Clash of civilisations real?
