Islam and Global Culture Hegemony

DOI

10.2991/icclas-18.2019.40How to use a DOI?

Keywords

globalization, modernity, universal culture, the rise of Islam

Abstract

Globalization imposes a universal culture which it implies a general view that the presence of a culture is inseparable from the human aspect and the general acceptance of values, beliefs, orientation and institutions by people throughout the world. What is called universal culture, is none other than the West that has the most right to claim to be the representation of universal civilization. When it is fully held by the West, there are entities that experience the psychological burden, one of which is Islam. Islam, which had been a world super power for about 12 centuries, certainly felt tremendous suffering when it came to being servant of the Western people who before had always been defeated by Islam. This was what my research focused on. It aimed at exploring bow Muslims responded the west’s hegemony over their countries. As it was a library study, I used papers, journal’s articles, and other documents as the primary data sources. The data were qualitatively analyzed using relevant theories and concepts after examining their trustworthiness. The study indicated that Muslims responded the west hegemony differently. There were two responses that arose, namely a positive response in the form of a desire and a strong spirit to be able to return to excel in all aspects such as science, technology, politics, economics, military and so on. However, there is also a negative response in the form of violence against everything related to the West. This action then gave birth to terrorism which is now being fought by mainly Western nations.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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