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We focuses on three basic problems in this article. Firstly, we are interested in Smith’s phenomenology which has criticized classical orientalism. According to this, Smith attributes a destroying purpose relating orientalism and essentialism to phenomenology of religion. Smith opposes to pozitivistic and historicisist reductionism built by orientalism. He asserts that orientalist conception isolated religious texts from personal dimension by reifying them. Smith tries to build a pluralistic structure instead dualistic structure of orientalism. The second problem relates with developing a hermeneutical conception of Quran beyond western researchers’ orientalist perspective on Quran. Smith opposes to orientalists who don’t accept Quran as scripture and some historicist conception relating to Quran. Early orientalism’s false convictions on Quran bases on their distorded conception on religion, language and history. It is vital to understand hermeneutically concept of historicity in order to avoid such a orientalism. Third problem relates with understanding religion by emphatetic interpolation called insider’s perspective instead orientalist definition. Smith tries to establish a dialogue between orientalist perspective and believer connected with religion and avoids from a monological orientalism.

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