DerRadIslam · Qur’an and Qital. The violence against the Other in a historical critical deradicalizing perspective.

Qur’an and Qital. The violence against the Other in a historical critical deradicalizing perspective.

" Violence in its religious premise as well as its adoption in Islam, has become a normal praxis both in reference to a sharp increase in internal conflict: not only between Sunni and Shi’a, but among Muslims who support different radical points of view in relation to other religions. This topic could be considered very popular; however, its historical and religious focus on the link between the Islamic revelation and the violence against non-Muslims is limited and usually not linked to a historical-critical understanding, in particular concerning the early evolution of the conceptualization of the ""just war"" which not authomatically became ""holy"" as related to a concept of sanctity that was actually absent in the first centuries of Islamic History. Part of Islamic-Western (Orientalist) Narrative today is still convinced, for example, that we can already talk of Islam after the Prophet’s death in 632, and that the early Arab conquering campaigns were Islamic (7th centuries) as well as founded on an already existing conceptualization of the Islamic Just War through the existence of Jihad in the early version of the Qur'an. This narrative was easily adopted during Colonialism as to frame a logo as “Global Jihadism” through the exploitation of religious revanchism framed by Wahhabism but also the thought of authors as S. Qutb (d.1966) and Abul Ala al-Maududi (d. 1979): the forerunners of the contemporary reconceptualization of Jihad. Never so far from the historical reality of late antiquity. Objectives of social impact: - To establish an inter-disciplinary methodological approach in reconsidering “religious violence” in Early Islamic History, Qur’anic Studies and its contemporary re-conceptualization, in particular in relation to colonial and post-colonial Middle Eastern History. - To design a deradicalization praxis, based on a concrete historical- religious analysis that can reach 2nd, 3rd, and 4th generations of European – Muslims through the impact that this work will produce on social actors: teachers, professors, social workers, prison staff, chaplains etc. Overview of the action: 1. The Verses on war in the Qur’an and Early Islamic History. Can the concept of Islamic Holy war exist before the canonization of the Islamic revelation? 2. Which was the concrete early conceptualization of Jihad with Islamic history? Which was the impact of an early Christian canonization of the Just war and its influence in early Islam? 3. Stressing religious violence from an Orientalist to an Occidentalist (Baruma-Margalit, 2004) perspective in the contemporary age. Is the Islamic supremacy theoretical approach rooted in Western supremacism more than in an Islamic one?"

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