Document Type : Research Article

Authors

• محمدصادق نصراللهی ¹
• mohsen johari ²
• mohammad ali faezi ³
• mohammad Qa’emi rad ⁴

¹  Faculty Member of Culture and Government Department, ISU

² Ph.D.Candidate of Culture and Communication, ISU

³ M.A. Student of Islamic Studies, culture and Communication, ISU

⁴ M.A. Student of Islamic Studies, Culture and Communication

Abstract

In culture and communication science, one of the major topics of discussion is cultural differences. The importance of this is such that it has led to the formation of a field of knowledge called “intercultural communication”. In this trend, some serious normative approaches have appeared in the west called “multiculturalism” or “cultural pluralism”. The main problem in this research is to discover the Quranic View as the main source of divine inspiration about “social differences”. Our main reference is Tafsir-al- Mizan of Allameh Tabatabaee. It has been attempted to combine the two methods of topic-based interpretation (in collecting data) and data-based theorization (in the field of analysis), and by having a complete review of the Quran and extracting related verses and meditating on them, depict the Quranic model of cultural differences. The basic portion of this model is cultural differences consisting of linguistic, ritual and religious practices, with necessity and progressiveness as their main features. Other portions of the model are: causal conditions, ground, mediatory conditions, action and reciprocal action, and consequences.

Keywords

• Cultural Pluralism
• Cultural Differences
• Multiculturalism
• Intercultural Communication