ISLAMIC CIVILIZATION’S CONTRIBUTION TO THE WORLD AND THE EUROPEAN RENAISSANCE

Abstract

This article explores the Islamic Civilization’s contributions to world history and especially the history of Western Civilization on the threshold of the European Renaissance. Both civilizations had great achievements in world history ranging from trade, science, medicine, technology, architecture, art, and literature. It is a fact that the development of world history is interconnected. Every civilization and culture, more or less, have an intellectual endowment that foregrounds the transformation of the world. This article aims at two things: to demonstrate the influence of Islamic civilization over the development and process of human culture over centuries and to support the claims that the Islamic world has great contributions to the European Renaissance. Islamic Civilization did its own endowments to the world in so many fields but to limit the study only some of its vital achievements are selected here to discuss. These are the fields including science, medicine, architecture, arts, and literature. This study also attempts to discuss how the translation of the Greek and Arab texts contributed to the developments in the European Renaissance.

Keywords

• European Renaissance
• Islamic Civilization
• Culture
• Changings
• Development

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