The Place of the "Other" in Ali Shariati's Political Thought

One of the most important concerns that have occupied the minds of Iranian intellectuals and thinkers for many years before the Constitution is the way "us" deal with the "other"; An important issue that became more important in the 1960s and 1970s, especially in the form of "Iranian identity" and "returning to self"; So that many writers such as Jalal Al- Ahmad, Shariati, Fardid and Nasr addressed this issue in their works. Accordingly, the present paper seeks to examine the question of what epistemological system can be understood by the confrontation of "us" with the "other" in Shariati political thought. To this end, in order to understand and interpret this question, we tried to test this hypothesis by dissecting the propositions in Bakhtin's theory; That Ali Shariati's approach to the issue of "us" confronting the "other", despite his efforts to understand the "other" and identify the "other", eventually led to the strengthening of a monologue; The possibility of a favorable encounter with the "other" and, more precisely, "dialogue with the other" was realized in a very weak and fragile way.