Meaning and Response: The Comparative Study of Islamic Extremism and Nihilism

Faṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish/hā-yi Rāhburdī-i Siyāsat

关键词: Islamic extremism;    Technology;    nihilism;    absence of meaning;    remaking value;   

DOI  :  10.22054/QPSS.2018.19352.1555

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The structure of ideology faces with crisis in its meaning system automatically; Being valueless and the crisis of meaning are the most salient aspects of these crisis. The beginning point of the being valueless and the absence of the meaning, is indication of the perdue nihilism in the human history. For dominance to nihilism, each ideology as for its contexts tries to replication; Islamic thought in not immune from this principle. Islamic thought wrestles with predominance a kind of nihilism that attacks the meaning system of this thought as the other thoughts. Technology and extension of the spaceless information, smoothing the path to nihilism and in this way Islamic thought tries to make remeaning and remake new value. One of the aspects of this new meanings making appears in radical movements and thoughts that generally called Islamic Extremism; the organizations and groups such as Al-Qaeda, Taliban and Daesh are the examples for this Extremism. The correspondency of this thoughts is violence. In fact, we can briefly say that, the Islamic Extreism, is the logical result of predominance of the neo nihilism. The purpose of this research is comparing the Islamic Extremism and nihilism, that it carry out with comparative study.