Transformasi Ilmu Pengetahuan Islam Ke Dunia Barat

This study aimed to describe the process of transformation of Islamic science to the West. When the Islamic world has played an important role, the Western world civilization was declined. Intellectual activity in the history of Islamic civilization is one link in a journey of Islamic science development, which was started from the Prophet Muhammad, continued to the Khulafa 'al-Daula Umayyad caliphs time in Damascus and reached the height of glory during the Abbasid Daula in Baghdad, Daula Fatimids in Egypt and Daula Umayyad II Andalusia. The role of educational institutions, book translation of Greece, Persia, and India into Arabic and also support by the caliphs who love the science are some factors supporting the development of science in the classical period. The science transformation into the Western world was occurred through Spain, Sicily and the Crusades. Furthermore, the works of Islamic scholars were translated into Latin in Toledo, Palermo and other places which were visited by Christian youth of the Western world. The science progress in Islamic world has made Western people began to direct their attention to the Islamic world; as the result, the Western science continues to grow until the Renaissance era.