Early History of Islam in Germany
Actually, Islam has been known by the Germans since the days of the occupation of the Islamic Caliphate in Spain. At that moment of power and progress of the Islamic world respected by the nations of Europe. Andalusia used as a center of science under the Islamic Caliphate. Europeans began to enter the Middle Ages, they called it a dark age or the Dark Age. It is precisely such designation for Europeans of that era. Expansion and advancement of large-scale Islamic Caliphate, both in political, economic, cultural, and science far beyond the nations of Europe. At the time of the crusades, wars occurred between Muslims with European nations, especially France, Germany and Britain. After the crusade ended, tolerance between religions and cultures also take place. At that time European nations including Germany began to know more about Islam. Poets number one in Germany, Wolfgang von Goethe, was an admirer of Muhammad PBUH. Republika daily load ever biography of Wolfgang von Goethe on the rubric of the Islamic world. It is said in the text that von Goethe put the teachings of Islam in his work. Posts Basmallah also adorn the books he made. At the end of his utter two sentences khayatnya creed. Relations between Germany and Islam continues. As revealed in Medan Daily Alert, that in the year 1739, King Friedrich Wilhelm I founded a mosque in the city of Potsdam to the Moslem army, they were called by the name Muhammadaner troops. They were also given guarantees freedom of worship. In February 1807 King Wilhelm troops Muhammadaner help fight Napoleon of France. Together with other German troops, they were fighting Russia and Poland. In one regiment named Towarczy, 1220 and 1320 Muslim soldiers other soldiers Christian. In those days, the Muslims in Germany in addition to being soldiers, they are also many became merchants, diplomats, scientists, and writers. At the time of the First World War, Germany again allied with the Muslim armies of the Ottoman Turks. This makes the Muslim community in Germany grew more and more to strengthen its existence. German Muslim institutions already established in 1930. Between 1933 and 1945, there were more than three thousand German citizens are Muslims, and three hundred of them bloody ethnic Germans. Unfortunately, when the leadership of Hitler and the second world war, the Islamic ummah fragmented. Freedom of worship is threatened. Some Muslims go to escape to the Balkan country. After the second world war ended with the defeat of Germany acquired, the relationship between Germans and Muslims back in touch. The presence of Islam in Germany increased in the 1960s. As a result of world wars, shattered the German state. Germany needs a lot of labor. The workers came from Italy, Turkey and Eastern Europe to build Germany's back. After they completed the work contract, these workers refused to return to their country, they even brought his family to-family residence in Germany. Berlin became a city with the largest number of Turkish community after Istanbul. Muslims from Yugoslavia and Iran also came and settled in Germany. These brought the total Muslim population in Germany more than two million people in early 1990.
Posting Komentar