| Summary: | As work of art full of imaginatioan and communicator full of message,
literary work could be the most appropriate medium for understanding various
phenomena in society that is constantly changing. In recent years the world faces
a complex problem that could threaten the existence of humanity, the violence in
the name of religion. The problem is centered in the Middle East region, which
has long since become the arena of conflict of interests. Departing from the
assumption that all religions preach peace, love, and humanity, this study wants to
find the roots of violent actions that make religion as justification, which the novel
as a material object.
�Azâzîl, a novel written by Egyptian poet, Youssef Ziedan, brings a new
perspective. 'Azâzîl presents the story of violence in the name of religion with the
historical context of pre-Islamic times, namely the 5th century, and made the life
of Chr istian communities in the Roman (Byzantine) as a core story that allows the
study revealed new potentialities that have not been explored previously. Given
that the facts of the story in a literary work is a container of something that is
universal, then the facts about the characters or setting, for example, rather than
merely referring to the social and historical facts, but as a universal fact that can
happen to anyone and in anywhere.
This study is a library research. To analyze the data, researcher used
content analysis method and the method of dialectic. To describe the categories
and forms of violence in the name of religion, used the Jamil Salmi�s theory of
violence. Meanwhile, to reveal the pattern of the relationship between violence in
the name of religion with a condition of social life, politics, and religion in the
Midd le East, researcher use the Georg Lukacs�s theory of sociology of literature.
Of that process, the study found that repressive violence is the base of all acts of
violence in the name of religion, such as murder, expulsion, and revocation of the
right to obtain affection. Numerous acts of violence connected with the social
context in three patterns: romantic, intellectualist, and ethical. Romantic in the
sense that violence is inherent in the social structure. Intellectualistic in the sense
that violence offer or require a possible or proposed world which never found in
reality. While the ethical is the nature of reciprocity, which a violent act will be
followed by another violence, and so on. The chain o f violence may be terminated
only by a dialogue to unite various perception in order to build a social system
which dr eamed together.
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