Interpretasi ayat-ayat “pseudo kekerasan”: analisis psikoterapis atas karya-karya tafsir Ḥannān Laḥḥām

This dissertation originates from an observation of sharp differences in interpretation by exegetes, who wrote their Qur’anic exegeses in a violence-laden environment. Accounting for a number of considerations, the author opts for the exegesis of Ḥannān Laḥḥām as the subject of her study. While Lahham’s exegesis was laid out in a setting full of conflict, the exegetical ideas she propagated were seeking peace and harmony. In Lahham’s view, the majority of Muslim ummah was ailing and hence needed therapy in order to heal, especially with regard to interpreting the Qur’an. In this respect, the author understands Lahham’s offer as a model for therapeutic interpretation that may yield a way out for Muslims from their hatred prison to be able to read the Qur’an in a harmonious mode. To analyze Lahham’s exegetical ideas, the author asks three leading questions as follows: (1) How to categorize the pseudo-violent verses of the Qur’an? (2) What epistemological basis does Lahham’s exegesis have? (3) How does the interpretation that Lahham’s offered look like from psycotherapist perspective? In so doing, the dissertation employs an interdisciplinary approach, encompassing philosophical-historical interpretive, and psychotherapist. Historical interpretive approach used for analyzing epistemology of Laḥḥām’s exegesis, while psychotherapist approach applied to reach new psychological insight for understanding Laḥḥām’s interpretation of selected “pseudo violent” verses.With these three approaches, the following conclusions are reached: (1) There are four categories of “pseudo violent” verses of the Qur’an: explicitly restorative (307/6,66% of …