A . Gheitury THE BOOK , DECONSTRUCTION , AND THE RELIGIOUS SIGN

In this article, I investigate a possibility in the structure of the Qur’an for rethinking the usually forgotten issue of the religious sign. This is where deconstruction, guided by a certain otherness or transcendence, renders all God’s attributes as unthinkable. Thus, God’s presence is not the opposite of absence and his will is not in the way of our free­ dom. In fact, God is the Other, not in a dual system. Such an otherness brings about the idea of a sign which is non­dual in nature: It presents Allah as the Other who is never outside the Book.1 In addition, He is so near, yet no thing in the Book is like Him.