hassan naser khaki; abdolhosein kalantari
Abstract
In Islamic discourses, social changes in the Islamic societies have led into various orientations, meanings, and musts. Drawing upon the discourse analysis methods proposed by Laclau and Mouffe, the aim of this paper is to analyze the semantic systems of Islamic subdiscourses including modernist, fundamentalist, ...
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In Islamic discourses, social changes in the Islamic societies have led into various orientations, meanings, and musts. Drawing upon the discourse analysis methods proposed by Laclau and Mouffe, the aim of this paper is to analyze the semantic systems of Islamic subdiscourses including modernist, fundamentalist, and civilization-oriented ones and indicates the myths and necessities each one put forward for social change in the Islamic world. This analysis is based on the existing documents regarding the political topics which have influenced the formation of the mentioned subdiscourses. While Islamic awakening has been articulated as the source and direction of these changes in the three-fold discourses, they introduce different myths and musts to complete social changes. It is due to the fact that these subdiscources have different semantic systems. The findings suggest that the musts commanded by modernist, fundamentalist and civilization-oriented discourses are the realization of “Islamic modernity”, “a return to the Islamic society” which existed during the righteous predecessors (al-Salaf al-Salih) period, and the formation of a “modern Islamic civilization”, respectively. Since none of these discourses have been able to become the hegemonic discourse in the Islamic world, the outlook of social changes is subject to discursive competitions.
