Culture and Change in the Arab World and Islamic World : Challenges and Opportunities

Abstract

The study aims at presenting the issue of culture and civilization

change through globalization which as many believe represents European

centralization in its constant efforts to classify people, values and concepts

according to its new criteria.

The researcher chose the topic of culture because it is very hard to

compare the issue of globalization with its reflective results in isolation

from the cultural dimension specially after the emergence of the widely

spread electronic culture. This in effect, has become a stark challenge for

nations which highly estimate their cultural and civilized values like the Arab

countries.Thus, there is a contradiction that is created in this respect.

This study tries to handle this contradiction and offer solutions and

mechanisms to deal with these processes of change and modernization

and to understand their terms after studying the aspects of the crisis and

challenges that our culture is undergoing, and the challenging facing at

the essential aspects that our culture posseses should be wisely utilized to

achieve modernization and harmony with the spirit and features of the

current age.

The researcher has used a method based on induction and analysis. One

of the basic results that he has reached is the necessity to put a strategy

for comprehensive development which takes into consideration change

requirements and thier means in the cultural dimension the major aspects

which the study is based upon.