Foundations for Understanding within Intercultural Communication: Islam and Other Cultures

Finding a basic to understanding within intercultural communication aimed to an invitation to Islam and promoting the truth has been a priority in Islam; where you can find at least in one side of the communication an individual or individuals who are part of an Islamic culture. A descriptive-analytical study shows that to obtain this goal one should study different levels of a culture or its infrastructures. This unique and basic infrastructure is called world-view. Classification of intercultural communications based on their relationship with Islamic worldview can be done in different ways: intercultural communication based on Islamic worldview; intercultural communication based on Islamic worldview by cultures based on other religions‟ worldviews; intercultural communication based on Islamic worldview by cultures based on secular worldview. What is important in different types of intercultural communication is a foundation for understanding. In different types, this is common speech or common concepts; where you see some similarities in Islamic worldview, you can find a foundation for understanding and where there are no common concepts, one must rely on common oral knowledge among people from different cultures and recreate common concepts.