Our Islamic Identity

Although in our country identity has been searched from various angles, the author of the present article believes that the most important point of weakness in the researches lies in that it is not clear for the authors of these works what this identity exactly is. This paper, criticizing different views on the “identity of identity”, offers a view which is close to what seems to be right. The first part of the article that deals with the identity of identity considers the facts; the second part that is about “Islamic identity and its features” considers values. What this article is examining are as follows: the lexical meanings of identity in dictionaries, identity in social sciences, types of defining identity, criticizing the types of defining identity, definition of personality, differences between identity and personality, the referents of identity in human, the identity of bound identities, the identity of Islamic identity and its features, the ways to achieve the desired Islamic identity.