Malay Civilization

Thursday, 25 September 2014


Malay civilization is the civilization that developed comprehensive Malay Malay language based upon the arrival and acceptance of Islam throughout the Malay region. Understanding of Malay civilization as a civilization in the Malay region is dependent on the understanding of Islamic civilization. This is due to the emergence of Malay civilization traced acceptance of Islam by the Malay community as a whole region. 

Teaching Islamic faith by the missionaries of Islam throughout the Malay region progressively built the foundation of Malay civilization. This situation has stabilized, when the missionaries succeeded in attracting the Malay rulers. Little by little the Malay rulers turned to Islamic beliefs.

 Acceptance of this tremendous impact on the construction of Malay civilization as a civilization menghubungjalin diverse ethnic Malays. For example, the version written in Pasai, Sumatra has accepted the Islamic faith. Likewise Parameswara in Malacca was willing to accept the faith of Islam by Syed Abdul Aziz for himself, his family and later the Malay community progressively follow the monarchs.

Malay civilization built by the Islamic philosophy digested in the world view of the Malays. Every movement, behavior and effort Malay attributed to Islamic philosophy. Thus, the root of Malay civilization is Islamic civilization. This is a major relevance because Islam has managed to change beliefs, thoughts, tastes and behavior of the Malay community in the country and the region. According to Mohd Taib Osman (1988: 2);

"The culture of the Malays; connectivity and changes happen every time the arrival of civilizations outside influence, first of Indian civilization, and civilization of Islam and began a century ago, we in the West as a whole, from the modern Western civilization. At every point the arrival of outside influences, there are features that have been available memperlanjutkan culture as well as the emergence of features that establish change ".

The presence of Islam in the Malay world has brought great changes to the values ​​and culture of the Malays. Transitional style of thinking, social patterns, and interactions among the Malays muamalat and surrounding communities have diungguli by the Islamic tradition, so that elements of Hinduism, Buddhism almost eroded the lifestyle and mindset of the Malays. 

Even so, the Malays do not completely reject the traditional Hindu values ​​and practices, and they will maintain the elements that do not conflict with Islamic teachings. Syed Muhammad Naquib insists that Islam has changed the lives and physical Malay Malaysia and Indonesia. While Mohd Taib Osman was of the opinion that the advent of Islam to the archipelago has brought changes to make it part of the Islamic world (Ismail Hamid, 1991: 60). The changes mean the two figures above can be seen from all areas of life, such as language, literature, intellectual property, law, faith, politics, customs and art.


Malay civilization does not take into account the contribution of some of the early government of the Malay kingdom of Srivijaya in Palembang as, in Kedah and Langkasuka Kingdom of Majapahit in Java that was built ahead of Malay civilization, even though history proves the Malay language began to be used much earlier than the emergence of Malay civilization. 

This is because early civilizations did not have a chain of Malay civilization that emerged after the existence of the influence of Islam in the Malay region. Bond chain disconnected because government policy on early development and community have a different cord with Malay civilization that emerged later. Cord is defined as Islam.

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