Critical Discourse Analysis of Quran and World Peace: A Study of Constructing Peace and Contesting Power

Abstract

This study presents critical discourse analysis of Quran and World Peace written by Dr. Israr Ahmad using Fairclough's (2013) dialectical-relational model. The research examines how language is used to create peace, authority, ideology, and international power relations, treating the text exclusively as a socio-religious discourse rather than a theological or apologetic work. It shows that peace is discursively defined as a moral, hierarchical, and universal condition rooted in subject creation rather than political negotiation through a three-level examination—textual analysis, discursive practice, and social practice. The article simultaneously promotes a different moral system that asserts universality and criticizes Western-dominated international organizations like the United Nations for its ineffectiveness and powerlessness to treat the nations equally to secure justice and peace globally. This study demonstrates how the language of peace serves as a location of ideological struggle, generating both counter-hegemonic resistance and new forms of symbolic control, by extending all analytical sections and rooting interpretations in numerous specific examples from the text. By demonstrating how peace discourse functions as governance through language rather than impartial humanitarian consensus, the research advances CDA literature on religion, peace, and global power.