Document Type : Science - Research (Political Science)

Authors

• Ali Rashidpoor ¹
• Reza Esmaili ¹
• Mohammad Golnari Abbasi ²

¹ Faculty member of Islamic Azad University

² Ph.D Student in Cultural management and planning at Islamic Azad University

Abstract

Nowadays although the use of soft power or soft war literature in political, cultural and military even has had wide application, but the concept is as old as the history of human social life .Divine prophets throughout history many examples of this kind of war, and there are ways to deal with it in many verses of the Holy Quran in it. One of the main elements of soft war according to the Quran, soft war against the Islamic community's beliefs and worldview. The study is qualitative content analysis, in which the study of the Quran and authentic interpretations, different methods and ways of coping with any war in the realm of faith, was extracted and analyzed, The results showed that in different ways such as : deny, distort, understatement, creating doubt, denying, idolatry, superstition, mixing truth and falsehood, contention, lies close to God, and the faith of some blasphemy to some, out of the religion, the abuse of the sacred and determinism, is used in this type of war. And some coping strategies include insightful, dialogue, calling to faith, reason, respond, warning, interdiction, blame, fear, ultimatum, defiance, fear of loss, or the punishment (hitting force) is.

Keywords

• Soft war
• religious war
• Soft power
• Holy Quran
• Soft threat