Cordoba, Spain (Peradaban Islam di Cordoba)

Cordoba, The City of Islamic Civilization in Europe The Lost

City of science

            Traces of the glory of Islam in Cordoba are not only magnificent building left, but leave civilization a science are priceless. The town is located in Andalusia province West of Spain is also known as a center of science. In this city, stood a huge library with total volume reaching 400 thousand people visitor. Yet at the same time, major libraries in Europe, the volume of visitors rarely reached one thousand.

            Because it is not wrong if Cordoba called as the greatest center of learning in Europe, while other cities on the continent is in the darkness. Cordoba like fragrant flowers that spread in Europe during the Middle Ages as it was described as the Lane Poole, wonders of the world.

            In the reign of Abrurrahman III, University of Cordoba stands the famous and the pride of Muslims, thus droves of students from various regions, including Christian students from Europe studying. Of this university, Western countries absorbed science. One Christian student studying in Spain, Gerbert d'Aurillac is (945-1003), who later became Pope Sylvester II. After studying mathematics in Spain, he later founded the cathedral school and also teaching arithmetic and geometry to his student.

            The development education in Cordoba, even more shine in the era of Al-Hakam Al-Muntasir so called pious Caliph. A total of 27 private schools stood at that time and library building up to seventy pieces to add vibrant development of science. The number of visitors reached 400 thousand people. In fact, the volume of library visits in Europe, at that time, the highest reaching 1,000 people. At that time, there were 170 women who work as writers of the holy Al-Qur’an to the beautiful Kufi letters. Poor children can learn for free at the 80 schools that provided the Caliph. Higher education there was in balance with welfare.

           

            The growth of science in Cordoba in the era of the triumph of Islam has (give birth) spawned a number of scientists and scholars. Cordoba is an intellectual center in Europe with universities very well known in medicine, mathematics, philosophy, literature and even music. The contribution of intellectuals and scholars who were born of Cordoba is recognized and given effect to the human civilization. Among the scientists who appeared on the golden era of Islam in Cordoba, among others, Abul Al-Walid Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Ibn Muhammad Ibn Rushd, who later better known as Ibn Rushd or Averrous. Ibn Rushd was a very influential Muslim scholarship in the 12^th century and the next few centuries. He was a philosopher who has contributed to the tradition of integrating Islam with Greek thought.

            Thus was born a mujtahid scholar is Ibn Hazm who wrote the book Al-Muhalla. There is also a mufassir famous, namely Al-Qurtubi wrote the book Al-Qurtubi interpretation. Then the modernization of health experts, Az-Zahrawi, who introduced the nursing techniques and create new tools and techniques of surgical bean inside and out. He wrote a medical book picture is used as reference by the European medical experts. Know the science of surgery through his book, and much more scientific expert who appeared at that time.

            That city of Cordoba which in it is heyday inspired many western writers who variously described by historians and political progress as a forerunner to the carrier for the West in recent times.

Name: Nurhana Syamarro