An Ortho-Praxis Hermeneutical Phenomenology of Muslim Identity and The Alterity
Abstract
As God creates man as well as all the creatures, Islam defines man well both in
identity and alterity. Muslims with the help of their religious resources, can border up the
religious identity as well as the alterity. Moreover in history the Muslim praxis defined the
alterity wisely. In fact, the term Islam or submission in a sense can be considered as a social
key term for a peace-maker society. Especially thanks to this word, Muslims could display
both the receptive constructions and particular outlooks towards the others. In this article
with the phenomenological framework, we will deal with the Muslim perception of other in
critical hermeneutical perspectives. One of the urgent remarks that we have achieved that the
self- critical consciousness can arises from the stigma of being represented as alterity. Then
we have discussed the hermeneutics of alterity within the inclusivistic Qur’anic approach.
Keywords
History of Religions, Muslim Identity, Alterity, Muslim Theology, Qur’an
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