İSLÂM MEDENİYETİ’NİN BATI’YA ETKİLERİ İLE İLGİLİ BAZI DEĞERLENDİRMELER

Yıl 2006, Sayı: 7, 117 - 134, 01.12.2006

Edip Akyol

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Some Evaluations on the Effects of Islamic Civilization to the West

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When the Muslims conquested the areas such as Syria, Iraq, Iran and Egypt, they encapsulated then-important civilization and culture centers the histories of which date back to very ancient times such as Mesopotamia, Assyria/Babylon, Egypt, Greek. As the conquests progressed rapidly, Muslims came face to face with the West with the conquest of Spain. West got surprised in the face of magnificence of Muslims. People from West, adopted the science and life style of the Muslims in a short time and began to spread this magnificent civilization to other Western Civilizitaions. So, the West community had been influenced by the Islamic civilization for a long time