Investigating the indicators of the decline of civilization in Islamic and Western narratives

The issue of the decline of civilizations is one of the most strategic issues discussed in humanities. The decline of civilization happens in different dimensions and somehow involves all fields and sub-fields of human sciences. The purpose of this research is to examine the indicators of the decline of civilization in Islamic and Western narratives. The main question of the research is that considering that the indicators of life and durability of any civilization are multiple and diverse does the decline of civilization seem equally unpredictable and confusing? The method of conducting this research is qualitative. The data studied in the research are collected from library sources and reliable scientific-research articles. The results of the research show that the decline of civilization is not like a drop in the stock index of a company in the stock market, but it is like the entire stock market of a country experiencing a crisis and a continuous drop in the index. Of course, the point that is very important to pay attention to in the study of the decline of civilizations is that civilizations have their own characteristics at any point in history, and it is not possible to draw general principles for their decline, and based on those general principles, we await an event as great as the decline of civilization. sat and in fact, despite all the brilliant works that have been written in this field, there is practically no general and coherent theory about decline. The decline of a civilization is like a book with an open ending to which a new chapter is added in each period, and at the present time the chapter that is being written is a chapter titled The Decline of American Civilization.