The role of religion in the formation of Islamic civilization

Elmi, Ghorban; Fat&#039;hi, Masoumeh; Anjomrooz, Seyyedeh Suzan

doi:10.22034/qb.2025.2044322.1024

The role of religion in the formation of Islamic civilization

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Ghorban Elmi ¹

Masoumeh Fat'hi ²

Seyyedeh Suzan Anjomrooz ³

¹ Professor, Department of Comparative Religions and Mysticism, Faculty of Theology and Islamic Studies, University of Tehran, IRAN.

² Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Farhangian University, Tehran, IRAN.

³ Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Religions and Mysticism, Faculty of Theology and Islamic Studies, University of Tehran, IRAN.

10.22034/qb.2025.2044322.1024

Abstract

The main aim of this paper is to demonstrate the effects of the existence and development of religion on Islamic civilization. It employs the analytical and descriptive method to analyze the data. The Islamic civilization starts from the seventh century A.D. as the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) was born in 571 and started his mission in 610 A.D. The paper found that religion was at the heart of every civilization and has been an integral, a constitutive element in all past civilizations. A close study of the history of the civilization of mankind in the world yields one the idea that it has been religion, which is solely responsible for moderating and organizing human behaviour. It is religion, which controls and moderates the human behaviour and instincts in the social life, and obliges its followers, with a set of laws and commandments, to submit to restraint. The only internal and external agent that prevents any exercise of barbarism and savagery is definitely religion. It seeks, by encouraging and impelling man, to remind him of his dignity, self and talents, and of his role in bringing them to bud and blossom and to perfection. It makes man enjoy a just relationship, a reasonable freedom, a safe economy, sovereign humanistic values, and on the whole, the sublime spiritual and material state. This matter is evident in crucial role of religion in setting up Islamic Civilization and its development both in religious thoughts and the manner of the Holy Prophet of Islam.

Keywords

Religion

Islam

Civilization

Human Being

the Prophet of Islam (PBUH)

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