Problems of Human Civilization and Islamic Education as Alternative Solution

Abstract

This The dynamics of civilization development were enriched by the volatility of human civilization. Its backwardness and degradation, however, were strongly attached to the prevailing problems, including moral degeneration, the absence of dynamism in Islam as the consequence of dogmatism and conservatism, under development in scientific activities, the dim spirit of Islamic rationalist, and disintegration among Muslim societies. Those problems and the subsequent impacts have been unsolved issues, even at present. Moreover, some of them also triggered the backwardness of the Muslims. The essence of those problems was the leeway of civilization values or the deterioration of civilization builders. Therefore, education was assumed to be the key to re-establish the values embodied by the civilization builders. The implementation of an educational approach to re-construct Islamic civilization was by using the approach of modeling and culture of peace since the internalization of values required modeling. In addition, Islam discourages neither violence nor malignancy. On the contrary, Islam promotes compassion and peace, thus, the approach of the culture of peace was suitable in this case.