تفسير المصائب و الكوارث بين الإسلام و الثقافات الأخرى

Abstract EN

The world is exposed to many natural disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanoes, storms and devastating epidemics, and the interpretations of these disasters, ancient and modern, varied, and then this study presents the most prominent of these religious and scientific interpretations in order to reach the interpretation of the right abstract of myths and illusions in the name of religion, or falsehood and atheism in the name of science.

This study came in an introduction, two chapters, and a conclusion.

As for the first topic, it dealt with: the interpretation of calamities and disasters in non-Islamic cultures The second topic dealt with: the interpretation of calamities and disasters in Islamic culture, and then the conclusion that dealt with the most important results، including:- There is a common factor between pagan, Jewish and Christian religions in explaining the great cosmic catastrophes and catastrophes by returning them to the divine power, and they differed in terms of the pagan belief in the multiplicity of gods and the occurrence of conflicts between them that result in disasters, and the belief of the People of the Book that disasters occur at the discretion of one God, and the cause of them are human sins.

On the other hand, the materialistic trend emerged that explains disasters and calamities on the basis of scientific material causes, and the denial of divine intervention in cosmic phenomena.