مفهوم الحضارة : دراسة تحليلية مقارنة عابرة للثقافات

الملخص EN

The main issue of this paper is the concept of civilization as a cross-cultural concept, which led to its multi-connotations in different fields of knowledge.

Therefore, this study attempts to address civilization as a term that has its linguistic and conceptual connotations, and how it has evolved throughout history.

Accordingly, could be clearly defined, understood, to resolve many problems civilization studies and its issues, and tackle the differences among intellectuals and researchers when they use this concept.

Therefore, this paper adopted the cross-cultural approach to approach the concept of civilization, which is an approach that studies, compares and analyzes phenomena, issues and ideas in different cultural contexts.

Accordingly, to reach the identification of what is common and what is different in the concept of civilization between different cultural contexts, especially Islamic and Western.