‘Civilization: A Contribution to the History of the Word’

‘Civilisation: Evolution of a Word and a Group of Ideas’

Civilization

In the Name of Progress and Peace: the “standard of civilization’ and the universalizing project

The ideal of civilisation: Its origins and socio‐political character

There has been a revival in the use of the terms ‘civilisation’ and ‘civilisations’ to describe and explain events in the social sciences and humanities, nowhere more so than in politics and international affairs. This revival has seen the terms interpreted and applied in a variety of manners and different…

To Rethink Standards of Civilisation, Start with the End

Many people recognise that there is a need to distinguish between states in the international system, such as on the basis of legitimacy. For much of the system’s history the means of drawing such distinctions have been standards of civilisation. For some, the need to divide and separate is unavoidable;…

Globalisation and the shifting Standard of Civilization in international society

Globalisation and the shifting Standard of Civilization in international society Skip navigation The Australian National University The Australian National University Open Research Library Search query Search Skip navigation Home About Contribute Publishing Policy Copyright Contact Statistics My Open Research close My Open Research Your list of unfinished submissions or submissions…

Civilization and Its Consequences

This article outlines the origins and meanings of the concept of civilization in Western political thought. In doing so it necessarily explores the nature of the relationship between civilization and closely related ideas such as progress and modernity. In exploring these concepts, some of their less savory aspects are revealed,…

The Thin Ice of Civilization

It is widely accepted that as time passes, the more we progress as both a species and as individual human beings; the more we progress, the more civilized we become individually and collectively; the more civilized we become, the further we are removed from the vestiges of savagery and barbarism.…

Eurocentrism and civilization

In his study of the word civilization, the French linguist Émile Benveniste (1971: 289) states, ‘the whole history of modern thought and the principal intellectual achievements in the western world are connected with the creation and handling of a few dozen essential words which are all the common possession of…

Politics in a World of Civilizations: Long-term Perspectives on Relations between Peoples

It is a truism to say that the discipline of international relations (IR) is primarily concerned with relations between states. That is not to say that IR is only concerned with states, but by definition, relations between states is what the discipline is largely about. One of the criticisms often…

‘Poisons Disguised with Honey’: European Expansion and the Sacred Trust of Civilization

For many centuries now, those considering themselves civilized have carried out numerous atrocities—from abductions to dispossession to massacres—against those thought to be less civilized, all in the name of civilization. This has particularly been the case in the last 500 years when Europeans came into contact with indigenous peoples in…

Civilization and Savagery in the Crucible of War

The casting of the war on terrorism as a war fought on behalf of or for Civilization against some less-than-civilized Other—terrorists and their cohorts—is a significant point. The image being generated and marketed is one of a war between the civilized defenders of everything that Civilization represents and the savage…

The river of inter-civilisational relations: The ebb and flow of peoples, ideas and innovations

As a tool for understanding the world in which we live the study of the history of political thought is stunted because of a preoccupation with the Western canon as the history of political thought to the exclusion of other histories and traditions. This ongoing exclusion is itself facilitated by…

Civilization: “It Means Just What I Choose It to Mean”

Civilization is a complex and powerful word and idea that should neither be reviled nor revered, but it should be respected. It is said that the idea of civilization can be used simply to describe; but as a binary term, the ideal of civilization can be used to both to…

CIVILIZATION: THE ESSENCE OF AN EVALUATIVE DESCRIPTIVE CONCEPT

The power of ideas and language is not to be underestimated-ideas do matter, both "good" and "bad" ideas. John Maynard Keynes was right when he proclaimed that the "ideas of economists and political philosophers. both when they are right and when they are wrong. are more powerful than is commonly…

WHAT PRICE PEACE? ON THE DIALECTICAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CIVILIZATION AND WAR

It is generally understood that that there is a direct correlation between civilized society and a propensity for cooperation and peace over confrontation and violent conflict, both in domestic affairs and in international relations. Under the influence of democratic and liberal theories of perpetual peace, this leads to the assumption…

Inter-civilizational relations : why clash when you can cooperate?

Most people tend to think of themselves primarily as individuals, as members of a family or community, or as citizens of a state. Most of us, however, also belong to larger collectives known as civilizations (Arlt and Daviau 2009; Holton and Nasson 2009). Throughout much of human history, it is…

En nombre de la civilización: guerra, conquista y colonialismo

At its inception, the idea of civilization was imbued with a sense of progress, peace, and optimism. The historical record, however, belies much of this sense of optimism. Somewhat paradoxically, civilization has come to be closely associated with conflict and conquest. In the two-hundred-and-sixty years since the term was coined,…

Civilisation and hierarchy go hand-in-hand

As I have outlined in detail (Bowden 2009, 2009a Vol. 1), virtually since its inception in the mid Eighteenth century, the term civilisation has been imbued with both descriptive and evaluative dimensions. It is in large part because of this evaluative and normative nature that the concept of civilisation is…

The Role Of Colonial Mentality As A Soft Threat On Civilizational Memory

Colonial mentality as a psychological characteristic of the colonial period plays a special role in shaping opinion and action in post-colonial society. One of the serious points of the influence of this feature is its effect on human memory and their attitudes. On this basis, the present study aims to…

Exploring the Reality and Aspirations of Muslims The divisions of the Umat in Indonesia

Islam in Indonesia has played an important role in socio-political development in its recorded history. However, it is also true that there have been various theological and political debates and disagreements in the umat. The implementation of syari’at Islam is one of the major subjects of such discussions. The emergence…

Local Civilization and Political Decency: Equilibrium and the Position of the Sultanate in Java

Philanthropic Aspects of Islam: The Case of the Fundamentalist Movement in Indonesia

Confrontation Between Global and Local Civilizations: Nuclear Power Plant and Local Protests

Religion as an Organic Entity: The Emergence of Fundamental-Liberalism in Islam in Indonesia and in Japanese Shinran Buddhism

The Challenge to Religious Tolerance: Fundamentalist Resistance to a Non-Muslim Leader in Indonesia

It is important to question whether a long-standing tradition of religious tolerance in Indonesia has been overturned by the 2017 gubernatorial election. Equally important is that we explore the influence of religion in relation to the socio-political behavior of people. In the following parts of this paper, we attempt to…

Islamic Capitalism: The Muslim Approach to Economic Activities in Indonesia

Michael Gubser, The Far Reaches: Phenomenology, Ethics, and Social Renewal in Central Europe.

Civilizational Dynamics of “Hybrid Warfare”

Since the end of the Cold War, analysts have struggled to make sense of the proliferation of smaller scale conflicts. Several labels have been used to describe this phenomenon, the most recent being “Hybrid Warfare.” This paper attempts to analyze them through the perspective of civilizational theory. Very rarely, however,…

David Christian. Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History

What is history? Or rather, what are the appropriate time-scales that can be constituted as “history”? The general consensus among scholars is that history is the study of approximately the last 5,000 years or so due to the existence of written records. Anything prior to that is generally considered pre-history,…

Leonid Grinin. Macrohistory and Globalization

The Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin is once quoted as saying, “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” There should be a parallel statement about how some books state extraordinarily little in multiple pages, but others speak volumes in mere sentences. A good example of…

MacGregor Knox and Williamson Murray, eds. The Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300–۲۰۵۰

Carl von Clausewitz famously declared “War is but the continuation of politics by other means.” It could just as easily be declared that war is the continuation of civilization by other means, concerning how different societies and cultures fight can be reflective of their distinct characters as much as any…

CELEBRATING LEGACY OF A TITAN: IMMANUEL WALLERSTEIN AND CREATION OF THE WORLD-SYSTEMS THEORY

The paper is a salute to a preeminent social scholar of our times – Immanuel M. Wallerstein (1930–2019). It briefly highlights his biography, education, and academic career, however, it is mainly concerned with his scholarly concepts and theories. The author attempts to follow the process of development of one of…

Civilizational theory in Russia – past, present, and future

Russia may be justifiably proud of an illustrious, albeit uneasy, history of achievements in civilizational theory and thought. The names of Nikolai Danilevsky, Konstantin Leontiev, Pitirim Sorokin, Nikolai Berdyaev, Lev Mechnikov, Nikolai Kondratiev, Lev Gumilev, Boris Yerasov, Nikita Moiseev, Yuri Yakovets, and many others are well known to civilizational scholars…

Phenomenon of civilization: Pitirim A. Sorokin’s Integralist approach and its limitations

During his remarkable academic career Pitirim A. Sorokin published about forty books and some five-hundred articles and essays addressing the subject of civilizations in some of his most important works. Due to the rapid globalization and related profound and multifaceted transformation of the world, interest to the macro-level sociocultural entities…

From Brinton To Goldstone: A Scientific Civilizational Perspective On The Theory Of Revolution

In order to adequately investigate the complex and volatile phenomenon of revolution, we ought to place it within a relevant scientific field of knowledge. The theoretical and methodological foundations of such a field, named Civilizational Science, have been developed by Vlad Alalykin-Izvekov (Alalykin-Izvekov, 2011). The analysis of the phenomenon of…

Pestilence and Other Calamities in Civilizational Theory: Sorokin, McNeill, Diamond, and Beyond

Pestilence and Other Calamities in Civilizational Theory: Sorokin, McNeill, Diamond, and Beyond Vlad Alalykin-IzvekovFollow Keywords calamity, “civilized diseases, ” disease vector, endemic, epidemic, great sociocultural systems, great socioeconomic systems, infectious diseases, outbreak, pandemic, plague, pestilence, revolution, social change, zoonotic diseases Abstract This paper analyses the phenomenon of pestilence through paradigmatic…

Chiming the Hours of History: The Historiosophy of Pitirim A. Sorokin As a Spring of His Integralistic Sociocultural Paradigm

The purpose here is to present an original rethinking of the genesis, evolution, essence, role, place, and significance of the philosophical and historical views of the great Russian and American philosopher, sociologist and educator Pitirim A. Sorokin. In addition, an attempt will be made to determine their place and role…

The Russian Sphinx: Contemplating Danilevsky’s Enigmatic Magnum Opus Russia and Europe

The relations between Russia and the West have never been particularly easygoing or unambiguous, and, presently, they are yet again at an all-time low. The way to better understand, as well as to successfully communicate and cooperate with another society is through learning about evolution (and revolutions) of their (as…

Mamikon Airapetian. World Civilizations and Economic Cycles: A Comparative Historical Analysis. Part 1. Concepts and Determinants of World History.

The author of scholarly materials under review is a prominent Russian scholar, Doctor of Economics Prof. Mamikon S. Airapetian, the Leading Researcher of the Department of Macroeconomic Forecasting and Planning of the Financial University (FinU), Moscow, Russia. In his book entitled World Civilizations and Economic Cycles: A Comparative Historical Analysis…

Honoring A Giant: Immanuel Wallerstein And His Contributions to Social Sciences

As a salute to a preeminent social scholar of our times, Immanuel M. Wallerstein (1930-2019), this paper briefly highlights his biography, education, and academic career; however, it is mainly concerned with his scholarly concepts and theories. The author attempts to follow the development process of one of his main contributions…

Revisiting the Women Question : an Islamic Perspective

Rethinking Culture, Rethinking the Academy : Tawhidi Perspective

Foundation of Islam : the Islamic View of Man

Contemporary Social Theory-Tawhidi Projections-part2

Contemporary Social Theory-Tawhidi Projections-part1

The Enlightment Revisited : a Review Eassy

Paradigms in Political Science Revisited : Critical Options and Muslim Perspectives

Community, Justice, And Jihad: Elements Of The Muslim Historical Consciousness

Islamization As A Force Of Global Cultural Renewal Or: The Relevance Of The Tawhidi Episteme To Modernity

Contrasting Epistemics: Tawhid, The Vocationist And Social Theory

Beyond Cultural Parodies And Parodizing Cultures: Shaping A Discourse

Squaring The Circle In The Study Of The Middle East: Islamic Liberalism Reconsidere

Reflections: From Greed To Justice: American Policy In The Middle East: Reflections From A Muslim Perspectivel

The Globalization of Parks – Public Trust Resource Protection Worldwide

Environmental Crime and Civilization: Identification; Impacts; Threats and Rapid Response

Human Rights, Those Who Are Governed and the Legitimacy of Law Enforcement

Most everyone, if not all of us, wants to be happy. Peace is a common denominator frequently sought. It is human nature to seek security, another word for happiness. Human Rights, as we know, are basic rights and freedoms that inherently belong to every person.

Civilizational and Environmental Effects of Monolia’s Transition from a Pastoral to a Market-Driven Economy

Verge of Collapse? Survival of Civilization in the Anthropocene

Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations

THE CLASH OF INTERESTS: AN EXPLANATION OF THE WORLD DIS ORDER

As the parameters of the Cold War era fade, a new link has been established between the political decision-making process of the power centres of the international system and political theories. This is reflected in the recent theses of Fukuyama's End of History1 and Huntington's “The Clash of Civilisations.”2 Despite…

Islamic Civilisation as a Global Presence with Special Reference to its Knowledge Culture

The main aim of this article is to discuss the meaning and characteristics of Islamic civilisation and its global presence, particularly in the field of knowledge culture. Since both terms have been contested in contemporary scholarship to the point of their critics denying epistemic legitimacy to the concept of Islamic…

Islam and the Challenge of Diversity and Pluralism: Must Islam Reform Itself?

This article seeks to present a counter view of the Western critique of contemporary Islam with specific reference to its treatment of the problem of diversity and pluralism. The prevailing Western view of Islam’s experience of diversity and pluralism is that it has failed to positively respond to this important…

Economics as Science: Insights from Classical Muslim Classifications of the Sciences

This article seeks to emphasise the need to re-examine the foundational assumptions of modern economics, especially in light of the traditional Islamic idea of economic wisdom and Islamic conception of the science of economics as conceived by Muslim political philosophers. As argued by the philosophers and more generally the epistemologists…

Cultural Pluralism in a Globalised World: Challenges to Peaceful Coexistence

In the following paragraphs I would like to highlight the impact of globalization on cultural pluralism and then the issue of how the resulting cultural pluralism might in turn impact the future pattern of the world order. The thrust of my theme is on emphasising the need to better understand…

Islam and the Three Waves of Globalisation: The Southeast Asian Experience

This article is intended to comment on the civilisational history of Islam in Southeast Asia. The history is explained and accounted for in terms of the three major waves of globalisation that have impacted the region since the arrival of Islam as early as the eleventh century. The first wave,…

Interfaith Dialogue as a New Approach in Islamic Education

I would like to take up the issue of the need to re-examine our traditional approaches to Islamic education. This is in view of certain fundamental changes that are taking place both in the demographic and political maps of Muslim majority countries and in the Muslim perception of Islamic education…

The Place and Role of Maqasid al-Shari’ah in the Ummah’s 21st Century Civilisational Renewal

The author of this article argues that - from the point of view of the ideals of human civilisation as set forth by the Qur'an - modern civilisation, which is largely of Western inspiration and making, has undergone a progressive inner decay while displaying marvels of scientific and technological achievements…

Family Values, the Family Institution, and the Challenges of the Twenty-First Century: An Islamic Perspective

The main aim of this article is to discuss the concept of family and its values and its place and role as a multi-dimensional institution from the Islamic perspective. The author seeks to show that the Islamic family institution as envisaged by the Quran and as practised by Muslims throughout…

The Qur’anic Identity of the Muslim Ummah: Tawhidic Epistemology as its Foundation and Sustainer

This article seeks to serve as the necessary background and foundation to another article by the author which is to appear in the upcoming issue of this journal. It explains the identity of the Muslim community (ummah) within the framework of the quranic theory of multi-religious identities rooted in a…

The Identity Crisis of the Contemporary Muslim Ummah: The Loss of Tawhidic Epistomoly as its Root Cause

The author aims to show that the identity of the Muslim community (ummah) in the modern and contemporary period is in a state of crisis. The ummah is defined as a knowledge-community founded on, nourished and sustained by the quranic tawhidic epistemology. The article presents an established concept and theory…

Cultural Symbiosis and the Role Of Religion in the Contemporary World: An Islamic Perspective

The main aim of this paper is to provide an introductory discussion of the issue of the human need for a cultural symbiosis in the contemporary global community and of the constructive role that religion could play in delivering this global need. We will, however, be examining the issue at…

Towards A New Science of Civilization. A Synthetic Study of the Philosophical Views of al-Farabi, Ibn Khaldun, Arnold Toynbee, and Samuel Huntington

This article presents a synthetic study of the philosophical views of al-Farabi and Ibn Khaldun from classical Islam and Arnold Toynbee and Samuel Huntington from the modern West on the subject of civilizational science. On the basis of the Aristotelian idea of a true science, this article argues that al-Farabi…

ISLAM AND THE CHALLENGE OF DIVERSITY AND PLURALISM: MUST ISLAM REFORM ITSELF?

This article seeks to present a counter view of the Western critique of contemporary Islam with specifi c reference to its treatment of the problem of diversity and pluralism. The prevailing Western view of Islam’s experience of diversity and pluralism is that it has failed to positively respond to this…

Islamic Science, Modern Science, and Post-Modernity: Towards a New Synthesis through a TawÍÊdic Epistemology

Synthesis of ideas in all sectors of human life and thought – that is, of human civilization in general – is the very basis of the existence (raison être) of the religion of Islam. Islam has been revealed as a synthesis of all religions. It created a new civilization which…

The Nature and Extent of Criticism of Evolutionary Theory

In this essay, we will look into the existing body of criticisms which have been brought against the modern theory of evolution; we will investigate the nature and extent of these criticisms and con­ clude with an evaluation of their meanings and significance and the possible impact they will have…

Islam and the Problem of Cultural Symbiosis

The Quran’s Universal Perspective on Dialogue of Religions and Civilizations and Islam’s Theological Foundation of Peaceful Coexistence

Environmental Health and Welfare as an Important Aspect of Civilizational Islam

Modern man learns the wisdom of ecological equilibrium and environmental health the bitter way. It is also the expensive way. Not until he has seen with his own eyes the bitter fruits of his scientific and technological culture and of his extravagant life style does he come to realize how…

SCIENTIFIC HISTORY IN PRE-MODERN CIVILIZATIONS

The main arguments in this article pertain to the plurality of approaches in the study of nature in different human civilisations. In the popular Western narrative on scientific history, Greek science is presented as the first rational and empirically-established science in the world. Pre-Greek sciences were not rational in the…

Integrated Model of Civilisational Development An Islamic Perspective

This article provides an Islamic framework for the study of development and civilization. It proposes an integrated model for balanced development. As such, it addresses the following points: the concept of civilization and civilizational development from an Islamic perspective, mapping the civilizational model for balanced development and reviving the civilizational…

THE ANTI-ISLAMIST DISCOURSE: THE CASE OF AL-BUTI

This paper explores al-Būṭī’s critical view on contemporary Islamists who, according to al-Būṭī, have misapplied the Islamic law and sacrificed da‘wah in favour of political gains. Among their dogmatic beliefs is the ruthless and hasty call for the establishment of the Islamic state, the takfīr of rulers, arbitrary application of…

Enhancing Affective Domain in Training Science Based Teachers: Towards an Islamic Approach

Abstract This paper investigates the role of affective domain in teacher and science education from an Islamic perspective. Affective domain constitutes an integral part of the general framework and theories of teacher and science education; in designing the philosophy and objectives of teacher and science education, emphasis is placed on…

The pattern of cycle of civilization: resemblance between Ibn Khaldun and Malik Bennabi’s views

There is very much resemblance between Ibn KhaldËn and Malik Bennabi’s views on the concept of the cycle of civilization. It is evident that the two thinkers maintain that civilization in its rise and fall follows the cyclical pattern whereby a civilization commences its course in history, develops and reaches…

Concept of Civilisation and Sustainable Development: A Maqasidic Orientation

This paper discusses the concept of “civilisation” and “civilisational sustainable development” with special reference to maqasid and values system in Islam. Islam, in its very nature, posits that civilisation is an integrated and a multi-faceted social phenomenon involving intellectual, social, socio-economic, cultural, spiritual, moral, material, and other aspects. The concept…

IMPORTANCE OF VALUE BASED EDUCATION ON CIVILISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

This paper examines the importance of integrated value based education on civilisational development. It provides a framework for the study of education and its synthetic function on development of society. In very complex global environment, there is a need to re-visit the concept of education discerning its value and ethical…

Social Relations Network in Building Civilization An Analysis of Its Significance (Rangkaian Perhubungan Sosial Untuk Membina Ketamadnan Satu Analisis Kepentingannya)

This paper introduces the concept of social relations network as an important element in the process of building a civilisation. In general terms, any human society embarking on a civilizing process needs, among other things, four integral ingredients namely people, ideas, objects and social relations network. The realm of persons…

Toward a Worldview for Civilizational Development: A Study of the Islamic Worldview

Toward an Islamic Framework for Worldview Studies: Preliminary Theorization

The paper examines the importance of designing a framework for studying worldviews within the parameters of contemporary Islamic thought. It briefly reviews both selected western and Islamic stances on worldview studies. The literature reveals that research on this topic and its application to different spheres has become a topic of…

Capacities of Transcendent Philosophy in the Elucidation of Iran’s Revolution

Iran’s Revolution has been to date analyzed with a variety of theories, but the gap in the presentation of a native theory for its analysis has been always felt. Given the significance of this subject, the present paper attempts to shed some light on the capacities and position of transcendent…

Islamic Civilization

Islamic Civilization

The Role of Islamic Studies in Muslim Civilization in the Globalized World: Malaysian Experience

Transportation in Contemporary Civilization

The dialogue of civilizations: An Eisenstadt legacy

The Clash of Civilizations: A Model of Historical Development?

Pretender to Universalism: Western Culture in a Globalizing Age

Models of Cultural Exclusion and Civilizational Clashes: A comparison between Huntington and Siddiqui

Medieval Unity and the Economic Conditions for an International Civilization