A Comparative study of Self-Communication in Western and Islamic Schools of Thought

This article intends to examine two different approaches to selfcommunication which has important effect on understanding other types of communication. To this end, it tries to make a survey of western scholar's views about it. It then reviews Islamic narratives and the holy Quran in search of their treatment of the subject. It seems that their dissimilar definition of the self, i.e. the western insistence on the social effect and the Islamic focus on varieties of the self and relating with each of them constitute the differentiation between the two trends. Obviously, despite the theoretical character of this discussion, the results obtained depict similarities and differences between the two trends around subjects like the essence, kinds and levels of the self and the knowhow of communicating with it, and lead to a development of our understanding and application of this kind of communication and its extension to other communication levels.