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Challenges of Arab-Islamic civilization

and Method of Resurrection

Mohamed Ali El-Adly

No one is ignorant of place that Arab civilization acquires among Islamic personality and was This is through several tools and
means, such as breaking the link between the Arabs and their
different civilizations and no sane person would deny the virtues of
ancient past and cutting their roots that link them with their Islamic
Islamism to Arab civilization. The reason for this seems to be that
civilization. The result of these factors was that the Arabs had
Islam aims to elevate human beings to the highest level and to form
forgotten their past and denied the virtue of their nation, just as they
them above moral. So the graceof Arab civilization derives its
had lost their value and their entity, and they were swimming in
importance from this great Islamic message. When the Arab-
seas of darkness and ignorance.
Islamic civilization reached its peak and reached its advanced peak,
Having highlighted some of the problems hindering our progress
the Arab began to open up to other civilizations, whether Persians
and the prosperity of our civilization, it is best to consider the
or roman, which led to their degeneration and perhaps that is an
reasons by which our Islamic character can be reconstituted.
inevitable result of the progress of civilizations, as Ibn Khaldoun
It seems that the first steps that we must take are reconfiguring the
pointed out, but we must look at the reasons that led for that
Arab Islamic personality, the personality that is based on morals
resultThe decline of Muslims and the delay in the Arab-Islamic
and its basic foundation, the Islamic religion, with its tolerant
civilization from the path of human civilizations. We must take the
principles. The construction of that personality comes through the
reasons for strength so that our Arab-Islamic civilization returns to reform of psychological factors, which is that every individual
its rightfulness again. Therefore, this article aims to answer a key begins to reform himself and evaluate his lifestyle and the way of
question, which is “What are the challenges facing the Arab life in which he lives, and that According to the duties assumed by
Islamic civilization and how can these challenges be confronted Islam and the teachings that he established for us, and why do we
not return to Islam, which is the preceptor to which our ancestors
and returned The formation of the Arab Islamic character? "
prevailed and our morals were upright? The entire Islamic religion
is created and morals are the best means upon which Islamic
The challenge facing Islamic civilization is the inability of
civilization is based.
contemporary Muslims to assimilate the components of their
It’s clear that this intellectual invasion we are witnessing is due to
civilization and use its benefits consequently, its tardiness is not
the fact that when we open ourselves to other civilizations, we don’t
due to the civilizations intellectual and scientific deficit or to the
make a good distinction between the material component of
fact that it possesses its weaknesses but possesses all its strengths.
industries, innovations and technological advances, and between the
Opening up to other cultures is extremely dangerous. We Muslims
cultural and literary component, such as ethics, religion, and public
witness an intellectual invasion of Western civilization
morals, and therefore, when we open to other civilizations, we
unprecedented before, as modern colonialism tries with all
should benefit from the first component because it A common
capabilities and tools imposing its value and moral system and its
human domain character that is not unique to one's civilization,
language also on the sons of the Arab Islamic civilization, which while the moral component cannot be transferred between one
we call the cultural globalization that globalized that led to the loss civilization and another and is called a civilization specificity, and it
of the Arab identity and the shattering and weakening of the Arab represents the nation's entity and its spirit. Therefore, it is necessary
to preserve this aspect and protect the Arab cultural specificity in
order for the sun of Arab civilization to shine again.
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