A decade has passed since the breaking out of the ‘Arabic Spring’ revolutionary phenomena all over the Arab World’s societies. Many challenging and radically intriguing developments and ramifications have eventuated out of that era and led the Arab World’s context into unchartered territories of existence and self-understanding. This essay pauses at one of the particular challenges that faces this Sitz im Leben, namely the question of identity-formation and self-perception processes. It argues that the Arab states do manifest in their political and statehood situations a political situation of democracy that is run by ‘non-democrats’. The essay then suggests that this democracy of non-democrats is the outcome of the prevalence of an identity-formation and self-perception rationales that are rooted in crudely religious Weltanschauung that, far from maintaining distinction and particularity individually and communally, turns alterity into a self-otherizing dogma expressive of contrariety and stark divisive and discriminative relatedness to the other. The essay, finally, suggests that liberating the identity-formation process from the dogmatic attempt at turning religion into ‘identity’ per se is the first required step towards a more cross-pollinating and symbiotic relationality between the different persons and groups who live in that context.

自阿拉伯世界各个社会摆脱“阿拉伯之春”革命现象以来已经过去了十年。从那个时代开始，出现了许多具有挑战性和极其有趣的事态发展和后果，并将阿拉伯世界的背景带入了未知的生存和自我理解领地。这篇文章停顿了这个Sitz im Leben面临的特殊挑战之一，即身份形成和自我感知过程的问题。它认为，阿拉伯国家确实在其政治和建国状况中表现出由“非民主人士”管理的民主政治局势。文章随后提出，这种非民主的民主是普遍存在于粗俗宗教世界观中的一种身份形成和自我认知原理的结果。它不仅没有单独和共同地保持区别和特殊性，反而将改变变成了自我彰显的教条，表达了自相矛盾，与另一方形成鲜明的区分性和歧视性的联系。最后，这篇文章表明，将身份形成过程从教条化的尝试中解放出来，将教条本身转化为“身份”本身，是迈向生活在其中的不同个人和群体之间更交叉授粉和共生关系的第一步。语境。