stimulates of literacy in the era of early Islam

Section: Review Paper
Published
Jun 24, 2025
Pages
84-156

Abstract

Every nation that wants to rise in its present must be inspired by its past and take from it what it sees as fulfilling its goal for the sake of its scientific and cultural progress. Especially if this past is archaic in His Highness, bright in its effects, with a legacy firm in giving and goodness. It is worthy of the Arab nation that is building the edifice of its renaissance today anew, not neglecting what was mentioned in the Glorious Book of God and the effects of the Arab Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and his family and his companions from the foundations on which the civilization of this nation was built, and on which the pillars of its glory and its first renaissance were built, that civilization from which he benefited The old world, as the new world lived on For many years, he drew from its sources of wealth and its generous sciences before rising to its contemporary renaissance. And when the nineteenth and twentieth century arrived, the Arab nation found itself in urgent need of restoring its glory, and the advancement of its sons, a renaissance, with which to restore its glory and what was left by its ancestors of the huge legacy of various types of knowledge, after it saw other nations compete in the field of scientific and artistic progress. Illiteracy of both types has become widespread among its children for many reasons. We are not in the discussion of this study. It is left to other researchers of our colleagues, who pledged to study it and fulfill its rights. Rather, what concerns us here is not to lose sight of the impact of this illiteracy in our backwardness, not a short time, from the ride of civilization. Even our fathers and a group of our children thought that, because we were too late for the newly developed nations, we would not be able to regain the glories of our honorable nation, so we could catch up with civilization. The scientific renaissance witnessed in our modern era was an impulse for us to feel ourselves in the midst of this noisy world with the kinds of knowledge and science, and to uncover every obstacle to our civilized progress in order to remove it through our renaissance. The most widespread of these obstacles among the people of our Arab nation in general, and our Iraqi country in particular, was the spread of illiteracy, which was accompanied by civilization backwardness in a way that leaves no room for doubt. This made many illiterates vulnerable to various wrong beliefs and harmful habits, especially those belonging to the poor class, that class that was vulnerable to social, economic, political and cultural exploitation; Because of its lack of the civilizational obstacles necessary to bring about a sound awareness it had. Today, we are witnessing a comprehensive campaign to eradicate illiteracy in our rising country, stemming from the awareness of those responsible for it, of the causal relationship between illiteracy and various forms of backwardness. From this conscious standpoint, and out of pride in the authentic Islamic heritage on which the Quran and influence are based, I chose this topic, to be a serious contribution to the search for the noble and effective incentives that pushed this nation called illiteracy to become a nation of knowledge and civilization, spreading it among its children with speed and passion, then carrying it With her after that to every place he stepped on her feet and shadowed him straightened.

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AlZaedy, G., & کاصد. (2025). stimulates of literacy in the era of early Islam. Adab Al-Rafidayn, 9(10), 84–156. https://doi.org/10.33899/radab.1979.166131