Islam und Staatlichkeit

The political dimension shapes its respective counterpart. It can polarise in the forms of friend–enemy, good–evil and peaceful–threatening, as well as emphatically as a platform for the mediation of knowing–acknowledging–recognition. In ‘recognising’, two people cancel out each other's otherness by seeing not only what is different about the other being, ‘but themselves in the other’. The polarising–political dimension is overrepresented globally and in the media. There is a need for approaches that contribute to an unprejudiced and objective debate, also and above all in the discourse on Islamic political thought.