من طنجة إلى جاكرتا: وحدة المعنى والمبنى في العالم الإسلامي بين ابن بطوطة وجمال حمدان
From Tangier to Jakarta: The Unity of Meaning and Structure in the Islamic World Between Ibn Battuta and Gamal Hamdan
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7187/GJAT072022-9Keywords:
Islamic Identity, Islamic Civilization, Geopolitics, Historical MemoryAbstract
This is a study of the unity of the Islamic world in both meaning (culture) and structure (geography). In the first part of the study, the travelogue of the Moroccan Ibn Battuta is used as an illustration of the cultural unity of the Islamic civilization, and the second part “crescent/bow” geographical theory of The Egyptian geopolitician Gamal Hamdan is taken as a nucleus of an Islamic geopolitical theory. Malek Bennabi’s coined phrase “from Tangier to Jakarta” is also seen here as significant description the structural unity of the Islamic world.
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