Management of socio-cultural differences in Islamic civilisation : the experiences of the Ottoman Sultanate (1839-1865) and Malaysia (1957-1976) /
With the advancement of transport and communication technology in the modern world, traditional distances and barriers have been virtually eliminated. In other words, the distance is no longer a major obstacle to transport and communication. As a result, different civilizations and cultures are incr...
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| Language: | English |
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Kuala Lumpur :
Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences, International Islamic University Malaysia,
2019
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| Summary: | With the advancement of transport and communication technology in the modern world, traditional distances and barriers have been virtually eliminated. In other words, the distance is no longer a major obstacle to transport and communication. As a result, different civilizations and cultures are increasingly intertwined. The European nation state model, which was extrapolated across the world in colonial and postcolonial governance, was premised on homogeneous national societies with unifying ethnic and linguistic features, but nowadays it is difficult to find a homogeneous society with a single civilization in the world; each society is composed of people of different civilizations. The fact that societies comprising different cultures and civilizations revealed the phenomenon of how these differences can be managed together. The Islamic civilization experienced an ethnically complex community structure much earlier than European states and modern civilization. The first Islamic state established by the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) in Medina consisted of individuals who had different ethnicities in terms of race, language, culture, and religion. Likewise, the states of the Umayyads, Abbasids and Al-Andulus had a community structure consisting of individuals with cosmopolitan social and cultural backgrounds, with notable coexistence between Arabs, Romans, Persians, Berbers, Jews, Vandals, Indians, Turks, Chinese, and others wherever these states encountered others. More recently, the Ottoman Sultanate developed the “Millet System” policy. The Ottoman Sultanate can be defined as the most developed state of its period in the management of social and cultural differences with this policy developed for the management of social and cultural differences in both the classical period and the modern (post-Tanzimat) period, which responded to the needs of the era at a certain level. In the same way, the population of Malaysia is composed of different individuals due to the migrations taken from the abroad during certain periods of history. With the independence of Malaysia in 1957, the policies developed for the management of the differences in the society became an important issue. The aim of this study is to examine the policies developed by the two states (the Ottoman Sultanate and Malaysia) in different periods and in different geographies to understand social and cultural differences and their management from an historical perspective. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 105 leaves : illustrations ; 30cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (leaves 99-105). |