The Political , religious , and cultural conditions in the Arabian Jazeera prior to the era of prophecy | ||
| Journal of Historical studies | ||
| Article 1, Volume 1, Issue 24, December 2018, Pages 411-460 PDF (0 K) | ||
| Author | ||
| Dr. Muhammed Mostafa Afker | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Many writers and researchers view the pre-Islam era as an epoch of total darkness and obscurity since anarchy, tribal conflicts and wars were the dominant factors. These researchers adopted the European historians who used to portray the middle ages in Europe as a dark period with the intention to the highlight the renaissance period. This gloomy picture on pre-Islam Arabs persisted alongside other characteristics such as arrogance and ignorance; the opposites of tolerance and knowledge respectively. This misleading vision requires us to approach the matter historically with the aim of casting light on a feature thatreflects the Arabs cultural background. In this I will answer the frequent question: is it consistent that people lacking all civilization potentials assume the responsibility of transmitting the holly message to the world? Weren’t there any values in the pre-Islamic era? A thorough studyof the facts and evidences contained in history books about the cultural, political and economic conditions in the pre-Islamic Arab peninsula, the overall state of ethical decline of the communities will surely reveal to us not only the nature of the societies and their cultural, spiritual composition but the economic, political and social state as well. Examining all these facts will disclose the dramatic conditions that the Arabians, the Persians and Romans used to witness at the time due to lack of religious instinct, that part of the world including Mecca, which was an important international commercial and religious center, experienced a state of regression and decadence in all its aspects But depicting features of backwardness and decadence doesn’t necessarily means that the peoples were conflicting and astray. Viewing that era as such had largely to do with the previous religious circumstances (cult of Abraham and Ismail) peace be upon them. As intolerance doesn’t necessarily mean ignorance that leads to polytheism and injustice, cultural backwardness doesn’t necessarily mean a total absence of culture. This is illogic. Culture encompasses everything that’s acquired by humans: life style, traditions, clothing… For this aim, this study is carried out to honor that era of the Arab history through depicting and analyzing some ethical, religious, political and cultural aspects of the community and draw a close picture of the very circumstances at the time. Although features of illusion, ignorance, myth and legendry characterized the communities of the Arabian Peninsula, there were also positive values of courage, hospitality, solidarity, keeping promises that were consolidated by Islam.The prophet Mohammad said “I was sent just to complement noble values” to complement something that already exited . | ||
| Keywords | ||
| The Political; religious; and; cultural; conditions; Arabian; Jazeera; prior; era; prophecy | ||
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