The educational values of the book of “Salahuddin Al-Ayyubi and Perang Salib III” by Alwi Alatas

One branch of Islamic education is history lesson. Through these lesson the students are expected to take the lessons of past stories especially related to Islam. However, today the students who like history lesson are very few because of boring, monotonous, and uninteresting. Besides that, today the Islamic world is experiencing a similar event with the time of Salahuddin Al-Ayyubi.

The book of “Shalahuddin Al-Ayyubi dan Perang Salib III” by Alwi Alatas is a historical book. The book content is about the educational values which could be emulated today. The book of “Salahuddin Al-Ayubi dan Perang Salib III” by Alwi Alatas as representatives story of the past to be used as research under the title The Educational Values of the Book of “Shalahuddin Al-Ayyubi dan Perang Salib III” by Alwi Alatas. The goal of this research is to know (1) the educational values contained in the book of “Shalahuddin Al-Ayyubi dan Perang Salib III”, (2) the writing method which is used by Alwi Alatas in the book of “Shalahuddin Al-Ayyubi dan Perang Salib III”, (3) The way of author to convey the truth of the story in the book of “Shalahuddin Al-Ayyubi dan Perang Salib III” to the reader.

This research is a document research. The data analysis in this research is content analysis with historical approach. The data validity used (1) the perseverance of observer, (2) marking, (3) noting, (4) triangulation.

The research results show that educational values contained in the book of “Shalahuddin Al-Ayyubi dan Perang Salib III” by Alwi Alatas are moral value, awareness value, and religion value. Religion value can also be called with Divine (Ilahiah) value which is divided into: pious (imaniah) value, ubudiah value, muamalah value. In muamalah value there is multicultural value which are divided into: ummah value, rahmah (mercy) value, and musawah value. In composing the book of “Shalahuddin Al-Ayyubi dan Perang Salib III”, Alwi Alatas using content analysis with historical approach. To convey the truth of the story in the book the author has fulfilled the general terms of the exposure of historical story (1) the author has the ability to express with good language, (2) the historical story unity, (3) presenting the evidence and make general lines which will be followed clearly by the reader thinking, (4) the whole exposure of history, should be argumentative.