Approaches to reading intercultural communication in the Qur'an and the politics of interpretation

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4898526
AutoresHanan Ibrahim (0000-0003-0024-0090, Al-Ahliyya Amman University, autor correspondente)
Ano2014
Volume2
Fascículo2
Páginas99-115
Data de publicação2014-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCritical Research on Religion (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2050-3032 • E-ISSN: 2050-3040
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/2050303214535001
OpenAlexW2141856594
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas10

The Qur'an depicts fluctuating relations between Muslims and non-Muslims. While at times such relations can be conciliatory and harmonious, at others they are inimical, uneasy, or distant. Still, the Qur'an acknowledges the necessary ontological reality of the human difference. This is evidenced in many verses. Thus, I will argue that an "attentive" and "worldly" reading of the Qur'an is crucial to curb misunderstanding of the way 'difference' is perceived in Islam by Muslims and non-Muslims alike. A close reading is primarily a multiple form of communication. It is needed to resist the networked systems of power and control dominated by images and mass media in the Arab world and Western. It is exceptionally important to free the interpretation of Qur'an from the grip of Muslim and non-Muslim extremists and Islamophobes who read some of its verses as evidence of essentialized enmity harbored by Muslims towards all non-Muslims

Aesthetics · Epistemology · Islam · Linguistics · Media studies · Muslim world · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Theology · Education and Islamic Studies · Historical and Linguistic Studies · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Philosophy