أثر الحضارة العربية الإسلامية على غرب أفريقيا

Abstract EN

The research deals with a geographical area in Africa, it has elements of an ancient civilization, built approach not the civilizations that stood in Mesopotamia and the nile valley and other civilizations, but it consider in the point of view of its citizen a civilizations prond of its identity and the elements of its entity.

at a time when that region (Africa) lives according to a simple system based on hunting, grazing as a mean of living and from the branchs of trees and beads to cover private parts.

and from the mud, wood a way to build houses, and sanctifing kings, considering them as a gods, as well as sanctifing sankes and offering sacrifices to the gods, finally Islam religion came to change all that peacefully and gradually with out contradict with principles that people used to do there.

The wonderful thing is that Islam did not deal firmly with issues that are inconsistent with the doctrine and destroyed them gradually, Islam did not fight African identity, nor impose on the population to abandon their identity as an African citizen and converted them to be Arab by force, but on the contrary.

strengthened in the hearts of people their identity more over gave them a wider identity which is comprehensive identity of islam as it given to all those live under its banners, and the another element, the language.

Islam did not try to remove it, or force the residents to write and speak Arabic Language.

their language remained prevalent and they are at the same time accept.

The Arabic Language as the Language of their new religion, which the exact opposite of what Europeans did when they arrived in Africa through the imposition of English or Spanish or French on the population while the African proud of his beliefs, but he accepted Islam as a new religion because it calls to tolerance, love and kindness in the call by preachers, whether they are traders or migrants or scholars, so the shifting and changings which happened in Africa were very useful to region through integration into an ancient, coherent civilization which is Islamic civilization.