Open AccessTULISAN ARAB: PEMBINA TAMADUN ISLAM DI NUSANTARA
Author(s) -
Taeyoung Cho
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
siddhayatra : jurnal arkeologi/siddhayatra : jurnal arkeologi
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2598-1056
pISSN - 0853-9030
DOI - 10.24832/siddhayatra.v23i2.136
Subject(s) - islam , civilization , indonesian , arabic , archipelago , arabic script , history , ancient history , geography , linguistics , philosophy , archaeology
This paper describes the role of Arabic script on a view of establishing Islamic civilization in Indonesian archipelago. Arabic script, apart from a tool for writing, its characteristic is so intensive to symbolize Islamic civilization. The arrival of Islamic civilization into the archipelago has not only spread the religion, but also influenced the change of social system in which Arabic script wrote the various spheres of Islamic civilization and transferred them into the local communities. The appearance of variant graphemes into the Arabic- based local scripts (Jawi, Pégon, Sérang, and Buri Wolio) is a result from the modification of Arabic script to the local languages for transmitting the elements of Islamic civilization to the contexts of local communities. In other words, Arabic script shifted Indonesian archipelago from the age of Jahiliah to the age of Islamic civilization.