Re-Building Islamic Civilization While Looking at Other Civilizations

About the Book

World civilizations are always in a changing state all the times. This book analyzes the success story of Western civilization that influences the world today and observes how other civilizations have successfully absorbed many good elements from it. Among the successful civilizations are those of Japanese, Jews, and Chinese. Western civilization is in the state of relative decline compared with other civilizations today. Thus, it is now looking at the rise of Chinese and Islamic civilizations with extraordinary attention. Islamic civilization started in the seventh century AD with the messenger status of Prophet Muhammad. This book analyzes the current scenario of Islamic civilization—why it was very successful in the past and how to rebuild it once again in a new form. Qur’an and Sunnah must be retained, but the knowledge about them must be reviewed and updated. All that are good from other civilizations constitute the wisdom that must be shared. Malay civilization has the potential of leading Islamic civilization of the future. Starting with Malaysia and Brunei, Malay civilization can embrace Nusantara, and finally, the Islamic world and ASEAN.

About the Author

ZAHARI AWANG has published 3 books on the Malay World & Islamic World from the perspectives of history, sociology, culture, geography, politics, economics, technology & religion. He was a lecturer & dissertation supervisor for Master Degree programs at British & French Universities. Since 1996, thousands of students from various ethnic groups, countries and religious backgrounds have interacted with him. He was President of various student unions – Malay students, multi-ethnic Malaysian students, and multi-national Muslim students, in KL and London. As an academician & a professional from the industry, his experiences have exceeded 40 years. He lives in 2 places – i.e. in KL (City Center) and in Kota Bharu (Section 1).