2408-932XResearch Result. Social Studies and Humanities2408-932X10.18413/2408-932X-2025-11-3-0-23929RESEARCHES<strong>From the Hermeneutics of Silence to the Theology of Stillness</strong><strong>From the Hermeneutics of Silence to the Theology of Stillness</strong>SedankinaTatyana E.SedankinaTatyana E.tatiana-svetlaya@mail.ruRussian Islamic Institute202511300

This philosophical and theological study of the ethical aspects of silence and listening is not only relevant in the context of interreligious dialogue between Christianity and Islam, but also in contemporary society due to the emergence of digital voice simulacra. This gives rise to a dangerous trend of virtualising spiritual and moral values. Drawing on the cognitive resources of classical and contemporary hermeneutic, phenomenological and postmodernist approaches, the work aims to understand listening, silence and muteness in their ethical and apophatic aspects, and to analyse and reflect on the dialectic of silence and sound. In the second part of the article, an attempt is made to formulate prolegomena to an Islamic theology of silence based on the systematisation of information from the Islamic tradition regarding the importance of listening, speech, and silence. The ethical and apophatic aspects of hearing and silence are examined, along with a theoretical classification of specific, religion-based practices for maintaining a balance between them. As a result, the deeper (apophatic) meanings of these phenomena, which were almost lost, are formulated.

This philosophical and theological study of the ethical aspects of silence and listening is not only relevant in the context of interreligious dialogue between Christianity and Islam, but also in contemporary society due to the emergence of digital voice simulacra. This gives rise to a dangerous trend of virtualising spiritual and moral values. Drawing on the cognitive resources of classical and contemporary hermeneutic, phenomenological and postmodernist approaches, the work aims to understand listening, silence and muteness in their ethical and apophatic aspects, and to analyse and reflect on the dialectic of silence and sound. In the second part of the article, an attempt is made to formulate prolegomena to an Islamic theology of silence based on the systematisation of information from the Islamic tradition regarding the importance of listening, speech, and silence. The ethical and apophatic aspects of hearing and silence are examined, along with a theoretical classification of specific, religion-based practices for maintaining a balance between them. As a result, the deeper (apophatic) meanings of these phenomena, which were almost lost, are formulated.

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