THE CHALLENGE OF THE QUR'ÂN AGAINST OTHERING OR THE ADVENTURE OF THE TRANSITION FROM ONTOLOGICAL OTHERING TOWARDS ATTRIBUTIVE OTHERING

Volume: 6 Number: 3 December 31, 2006
  • Şevket Yavuz
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THE CHALLENGE OF THE QUR'ÂN AGAINST OTHERING OR THE ADVENTURE OF THE TRANSITION FROM ONTOLOGICAL OTHERING TOWARDS ATTRIBUTIVE OTHERING

Abstract

With respect to human history in general, and history of religions in particular, one may recognize two main historical lines: (a) cult-centric constructions that cover the emotive, cognitive and practical modes of suspending (of the same culture-civilisational milieux) and othering (of the different culture-civilisational basin) or construct identity criteria based on ethnic, religious, physical, biological, geographical, etc. variables; (b) wahy /”revelation”-centric constructions that comprise of “word”/kalimah, praxes and ethos, positing all alterities as unfolding the wisdom of creation, negating all types of ontological upper-lower stratification and hierarchy, designing all humanity equal in relation to rights and freedoms and seeing all as creational fraternities. Furthermore, a historical and theological situation that may be named "metamorphose of the Ahl al-Kitâb" is an ethos as if a moral pendulum swinging from the domain of wahy to that of cult pertaining especially to power and authority relations. The Last Revelation, i.e. the Qur'ân, situates those who impede to unfold the possibilities and potentialities of humanity in history, or those who used to otherize human beings as "attributive others", namely, kuffâr (“coverers” of truth, right, freedom), munâfıqs (“double-faced/character in faith”), zâlims (“oppressors”), and the like in real history; but it never wishes to turn this situation and its established quality into "ontological others/ings". That is to say, the Last Revelation does not envision to transform its attributive others into ontological others; revealingly, the divine plan of transferring the infidels of Tâif into the helpers (ansâr) of Madinah is ever extent within divine economy. Today, humanity hastily flowing towards the apocalyptical doomsday, Armageddon, needs a world in which there are no "ontological others". And the theology of such a world would be the Theology of Ta'âruf (mutual communication and wisdomizing). Through this theology, to view and protect all alterities and differences among humankind as colorful, stained glasses; and to realize an indispensable paradigm that envisages not to oppress, nor get oppressed, nor make someone oppress somebody by supporting those who are suspended and oppressed such as group, class, culture, civilization, or religion via cultic praxes, ethos, and discourses, can become possible.

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Şevket Yavuz

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December 31, 2006

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January 1, 2006

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Year 2006 Volume: 6 Number: 3

APA
Yavuz, Ş. (2006). İSLÂM’IN ÖTEKİLEŞTİRMEYE MEYDAN OKUMASI VEYA “ONTOLOJİK ÖTEKİ”DEN “VASIFSAL ÖTEKİ”NE İNTİKALİN MACERASI. Marife Dini Araştırmalar Dergisi, 6(3), 135-156. https://izlik.org/JA49AR86TT
AMA
1.Yavuz Ş. İSLÂM’IN ÖTEKİLEŞTİRMEYE MEYDAN OKUMASI VEYA “ONTOLOJİK ÖTEKİ”DEN “VASIFSAL ÖTEKİ”NE İNTİKALİN MACERASI. Marife. 2006;6(3):135-156. https://izlik.org/JA49AR86TT
Chicago
Yavuz, Şevket. 2006. “İSLÂM’IN ÖTEKİLEŞTİRMEYE MEYDAN OKUMASI VEYA “ONTOLOJİK ÖTEKİ”DEN ‘VASIFSAL ÖTEKİ’NE İNTİKALİN MACERASI”. Marife Dini Araştırmalar Dergisi 6 (3): 135-56. https://izlik.org/JA49AR86TT.
EndNote
Yavuz Ş (December 1, 2006) İSLÂM’IN ÖTEKİLEŞTİRMEYE MEYDAN OKUMASI VEYA “ONTOLOJİK ÖTEKİ”DEN “VASIFSAL ÖTEKİ”NE İNTİKALİN MACERASI. Marife Dini Araştırmalar Dergisi 6 3 135–156.
IEEE
[1]Ş. Yavuz, “İSLÂM’IN ÖTEKİLEŞTİRMEYE MEYDAN OKUMASI VEYA “ONTOLOJİK ÖTEKİ”DEN ‘VASIFSAL ÖTEKİ’NE İNTİKALİN MACERASI”, Marife, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 135–156, Dec. 2006, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA49AR86TT
ISNAD
Yavuz, Şevket. “İSLÂM’IN ÖTEKİLEŞTİRMEYE MEYDAN OKUMASI VEYA “ONTOLOJİK ÖTEKİ”DEN ‘VASIFSAL ÖTEKİ’NE İNTİKALİN MACERASI”. Marife Dini Araştırmalar Dergisi 6/3 (December 1, 2006): 135-156. https://izlik.org/JA49AR86TT.
JAMA
1.Yavuz Ş. İSLÂM’IN ÖTEKİLEŞTİRMEYE MEYDAN OKUMASI VEYA “ONTOLOJİK ÖTEKİ”DEN “VASIFSAL ÖTEKİ”NE İNTİKALİN MACERASI. Marife. 2006;6:135–156.
MLA
Yavuz, Şevket. “İSLÂM’IN ÖTEKİLEŞTİRMEYE MEYDAN OKUMASI VEYA “ONTOLOJİK ÖTEKİ”DEN ‘VASIFSAL ÖTEKİ’NE İNTİKALİN MACERASI”. Marife Dini Araştırmalar Dergisi, vol. 6, no. 3, Dec. 2006, pp. 135-56, https://izlik.org/JA49AR86TT.
Vancouver
1.Şevket Yavuz. İSLÂM’IN ÖTEKİLEŞTİRMEYE MEYDAN OKUMASI VEYA “ONTOLOJİK ÖTEKİ”DEN “VASIFSAL ÖTEKİ”NE İNTİKALİN MACERASI. Marife [Internet]. 2006 Dec. 1;6(3):135-56. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA49AR86TT