Abstract This study found that the relationship between religions affects the direction of orientalism studies. Orientalist research shifts from being historical-skeptic, to being more conceptual-harmonious. This paper focuses on the second study, namely the conceptual-harmonious orientalist, and more specifically examines Jane Dammen McAuliffe (1944). The results are: first: McAuliffe uses the paradigm of Interreligious understanding, namely reading the Koran in terms of awareness of religious diversity. Second, the output of McAuliffe's research found that terms that have similar meanings as "Religioun" (Din, millah, Ibada, Islam, Hanif, and Shari'a) are used not to refer to one particular religion exclusively, the different meanings that exist indicate an inclusive religion. -pluralist. Third and finally, McAullife's recitation of seven verses of the Qur'an (i.e. Al-Baqarah: 62, Ali Imran: 55, Ali Imran: 199, Al-Maidah 66, Al-Maidah 82-83, Al-Qasas 55-52 , and Al-Hadid 27) show that ideally, the Qur'an has great respect for Christians, this is indicated by the many praises given to Christians.
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