Europe and the Islamic world have a close relationship with each other for centuries. First, the state of Andalusia (756-1492) in the Iberian Peninsula, and later the Crusades (1095-1291) and Ottoman domination of the Balkans (1389), bringing the constant linkage between each community.
Today, many historians and sociologists claim that Islam is the main cause of Europe's movement from the darkness of the Middle Ages to the Renaissance splendor. At a time when Europe is still underdeveloped in the field of medicine, astronomy, mathematics, and many other fields, Muslims have a vast treasure of knowledge and great potential for growth.
The first event that made Europeans aware of the existence of Islam is important in their lives was the caliph Omar bin al-Khattab took Jerusalem (638). This led Europe to realize for the first time that Islam has spread and even close their borders. The main reason for the Crusades, which occurred four centuries later, is to take back Jerusalem from the Muslims. But the Crusaders who were assigned for this purpose to obtain something else, because of their contacts with the Muslim world is the first step towards the rebirth of Europe. Dominated by darkness, conflict, war, and despotism, Europe faces an advanced civilization of the Islamic world and saw that its inhabitants are very prosperous and civilized, and advanced enough in medicine, astronomy, and mathematics as in their social life. They also see the values that are rarely found in Europe at that time (eg, pluralism, tolerance, understanding, compassion, and self-sacrifice) are aspects of high morality expressed by Muslims, who recognize their religious responsibilities.
Meanwhile, when the Crusades is still raging, the European society also maintains relations with Muslim communities closer to their region: the Islamic kingdom of Andalusia, which is located in the southern part of their own continent. Andalusia has a strong cultural influence in Europe until its collapse at the end of the 15th century. Many historians who have studied the influence of Andalusian over Europe agreed that this kingdom, with social structure and level of high civilization, far more advanced than the rest of Europe, and that it is one of the main factors in the development of European civilization. Spain's leading historian, Blanco Ibanez writes that:
Defeat in Spain do not come from the north; Islamic conquerors came from the south. This is much more than a victory, it is a leap of civilization. Because of this fact, civilization's richest, most brilliant, and known in Europe was born and developed throughout the Middle Ages between the 8th century and the 15th century. During this period the northern nation which was destroyed by the wars of religion, and while they are moving in a pile of blood-thirsty, Andalusia residents exceeds the amount of 30 million. In this number, which is high for the time, every race and religion to move freely and with equality, and the pulse of the community is very alive.
With the streets brightly lit, the capital of Cordoba provide striking examples and contrast with European cities which, according to British historian, John W. Draper, "Seven hundred years after this, no more than one public lamp in London. In Paris, centuries later, anyone who stepped on a rainy day, his legs covered in mud up to the wrist.
Andalusia finally collapsed there in 1492 with the fall of Granada, the last Muslim kingdom on the Iberian Peninsula. But then, Europe dealing with the Ottoman Empire, which began to advance in the Balkans in the fifteenth century as a result of several victories and mass conversion among the Balkan people. This conversion is never forced or obtained by pressure. At that time, Islamic morality imposed by the Ottomans to make the people who watched choose Islam freely. Ottoman civilization built on the moral values of the Qur'an such as justice, equality, tolerance, and compassion, and it applies in the Balkans for 400 years. The marks can still be seen there (a large number of these relics were destroyed by Serbian forces and missiles during the war in Bosnia, but this does not change historical facts.) Islamic civilization based on the Qur'an is an important part of Europe. Even today, many European Muslims live in the Balkans.
One seoarang people who believe that European civilization has learned a lot from Islam and that the two civilizations are always closely related to Charles, Prince of Wales. Prince Charles described the Islamic civilization and experience what is taught Andalusia and the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans to the Europeans is: diplomacy, free trade, open borders, the techniques of academic research, all come from Andalusia. Medieval Islam was a religion with a remarkable tolerance for the moment, so that Jews and Christians can practice their faith heritage, and set an example which, unfortunately, not emulated for centuries in the West. What is surprising is the fact that Islam has become part of Europe for so long, first in Spain, then in the Balkans, and has contributed so much to the civilization of all, wrongly, regarded as entirely Western. Islam is a part of past and present of Western civilization, in all fields of human endeavor. Islam has helped to create modern Europe. Islam is a part of Western heritage, not something separate.
Ambassador of Sweden, Ingmar Karlsson, known in Turkey for his book, Islam and Europe, said that in the Andalusia, Christians, Muslims, and Jews live together in peace and this should be taken as a model in Europe.
High Representative of the International Community in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Wolfgang Petritsch, stressed in an article dated 20 November 2001 edition of the New York Times that the fight against terror must not be directed against Islam and that should not be forgotten that Islam is actually a part of Europe. In his article, "Islam is Part of the West, Also," he states: "When we stepped out of our paradigm-and-them, we might remember that Islam is part of European tradition." Keeping in mind this historical fact is one way to prevent chaos desired by provocateurs who put forward the thesis of "clash of civilizations".
Today, many historians and sociologists claim that Islam is the main cause of Europe's movement from the darkness of the Middle Ages to the Renaissance splendor. At a time when Europe is still underdeveloped in the field of medicine, astronomy, mathematics, and many other fields, Muslims have a vast treasure of knowledge and great potential for growth.
The first event that made Europeans aware of the existence of Islam is important in their lives was the caliph Omar bin al-Khattab took Jerusalem (638). This led Europe to realize for the first time that Islam has spread and even close their borders. The main reason for the Crusades, which occurred four centuries later, is to take back Jerusalem from the Muslims. But the Crusaders who were assigned for this purpose to obtain something else, because of their contacts with the Muslim world is the first step towards the rebirth of Europe. Dominated by darkness, conflict, war, and despotism, Europe faces an advanced civilization of the Islamic world and saw that its inhabitants are very prosperous and civilized, and advanced enough in medicine, astronomy, and mathematics as in their social life. They also see the values that are rarely found in Europe at that time (eg, pluralism, tolerance, understanding, compassion, and self-sacrifice) are aspects of high morality expressed by Muslims, who recognize their religious responsibilities.
Meanwhile, when the Crusades is still raging, the European society also maintains relations with Muslim communities closer to their region: the Islamic kingdom of Andalusia, which is located in the southern part of their own continent. Andalusia has a strong cultural influence in Europe until its collapse at the end of the 15th century. Many historians who have studied the influence of Andalusian over Europe agreed that this kingdom, with social structure and level of high civilization, far more advanced than the rest of Europe, and that it is one of the main factors in the development of European civilization. Spain's leading historian, Blanco Ibanez writes that:
Defeat in Spain do not come from the north; Islamic conquerors came from the south. This is much more than a victory, it is a leap of civilization. Because of this fact, civilization's richest, most brilliant, and known in Europe was born and developed throughout the Middle Ages between the 8th century and the 15th century. During this period the northern nation which was destroyed by the wars of religion, and while they are moving in a pile of blood-thirsty, Andalusia residents exceeds the amount of 30 million. In this number, which is high for the time, every race and religion to move freely and with equality, and the pulse of the community is very alive.
With the streets brightly lit, the capital of Cordoba provide striking examples and contrast with European cities which, according to British historian, John W. Draper, "Seven hundred years after this, no more than one public lamp in London. In Paris, centuries later, anyone who stepped on a rainy day, his legs covered in mud up to the wrist.
Andalusia finally collapsed there in 1492 with the fall of Granada, the last Muslim kingdom on the Iberian Peninsula. But then, Europe dealing with the Ottoman Empire, which began to advance in the Balkans in the fifteenth century as a result of several victories and mass conversion among the Balkan people. This conversion is never forced or obtained by pressure. At that time, Islamic morality imposed by the Ottomans to make the people who watched choose Islam freely. Ottoman civilization built on the moral values of the Qur'an such as justice, equality, tolerance, and compassion, and it applies in the Balkans for 400 years. The marks can still be seen there (a large number of these relics were destroyed by Serbian forces and missiles during the war in Bosnia, but this does not change historical facts.) Islamic civilization based on the Qur'an is an important part of Europe. Even today, many European Muslims live in the Balkans.
One seoarang people who believe that European civilization has learned a lot from Islam and that the two civilizations are always closely related to Charles, Prince of Wales. Prince Charles described the Islamic civilization and experience what is taught Andalusia and the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans to the Europeans is: diplomacy, free trade, open borders, the techniques of academic research, all come from Andalusia. Medieval Islam was a religion with a remarkable tolerance for the moment, so that Jews and Christians can practice their faith heritage, and set an example which, unfortunately, not emulated for centuries in the West. What is surprising is the fact that Islam has become part of Europe for so long, first in Spain, then in the Balkans, and has contributed so much to the civilization of all, wrongly, regarded as entirely Western. Islam is a part of past and present of Western civilization, in all fields of human endeavor. Islam has helped to create modern Europe. Islam is a part of Western heritage, not something separate.
Ambassador of Sweden, Ingmar Karlsson, known in Turkey for his book, Islam and Europe, said that in the Andalusia, Christians, Muslims, and Jews live together in peace and this should be taken as a model in Europe.
High Representative of the International Community in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Wolfgang Petritsch, stressed in an article dated 20 November 2001 edition of the New York Times that the fight against terror must not be directed against Islam and that should not be forgotten that Islam is actually a part of Europe. In his article, "Islam is Part of the West, Also," he states: "When we stepped out of our paradigm-and-them, we might remember that Islam is part of European tradition." Keeping in mind this historical fact is one way to prevent chaos desired by provocateurs who put forward the thesis of "clash of civilizations".
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