Meaning and Response: The Comparative Study of Islamic Extremism and Nihilism

The structure of ideology faces with crisis in its meaning system automatically; Being valueless and the crisis of meaning are the most salient aspects of these crisis. The beginning point of the being valueless and the absence of the meaning, is indication of the Perdue nihilism in the human history. To overcome nihilism, any ideology, according to the text of its thought, seeks to be accountable; Islamic thought is no exception to this rule. Islamic thought wrestles with predominance a kind of nihilism that attacks the meaning system of this thought as the other thoughts. Technology and extension of the spaceless information, smoothing the path to nihilism and in this way Islamic thought tries to make remeaning and remake new value. One of the aspects of this new meanings making appears in radical movements and thoughts that generally called Islamic Extremism; the organizations and groups such as Al-Qaeda, Taliban and Daesh are the examples for this Extremism. The correspondence of this thoughts is violence. In fact, we can briefly say that, the Islamic Extremism, is the logical result of predominance of the neo nihilism. The purpose of this research is comparing the Islamic Extremism and nihilism, which is carried-out with comparative study.