دراسة لآثار الإسلام و العربية في العلوم و الثقافة في ماليزيا

Abstract EN

The advent of Islam to the Malay Archipelago had occurred in the first century of Hijrah through the Arab traders who settled in the various regions and intermarried with the native population.

It spread in the thirteenth century through the works of Sufis.

Since this period, Isiami7ation in the Malay world had effected the whole structure of Malay Society in the political, economic, social, cultural and litrary fields.

Islamic culture, which had flourished in the Near East, also contributed to intellectual progress in the Malay world.

Among the major contributions of Islam was its influencing the development of the Malay language and literature.

The Arabic alphabet and script were introduced and were adopted by Malays as the medium of writting in the Malay language.

As a result of the influence of Islam, the Malay language underwent great changes arid enrichment because of the borrowing of a large number of Arabic words.

After the advent of Islam, many works of Indianized literature were Islamized and translated or adopted into the Malay language.

In the process of Islamization the Indianized literature, Hindu terminologies and names were omitted, as were Hindu concept and religous ideas; in their places, Islamic counterparts were introduced.

Hindu heroes and heroines were given Muslim names, as were other essential characters in the hindu epics and romances.

Beside the Islamization of the Hindunized stories, the Sirat and narratives about the prophet Muhammad were brought to the Malay world.

The narratives of the ancient prophets, the hikayat of the companions, the hikayat of Muslim pious men.

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the story of legend and the romances of Muslim heroes were brought to the Malay world.

In classical Malay literature there are sevaral froms of poetry which originated from a Muslim source.

The most popular form was called sya'ir mutum (poetry teaching).

The others are burdah, syai'r, ghazal, masnwi.

nazam, ruba'I and kit'ah.

In conclusion, the advent of Islam to the Malay Land greatly contributed to the development of intellectualism among the Malays.

Therefore, Islam here played almost the same role as it did in Arabia by contributing both to the advancement of learning the Malay word as well as to thrdevelopment of the Malay literature.