Document Type : Research Paper

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Associate Professor, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran, Iran

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The Holy Quran, as the foundation and source of all scientific and cultural endeavors of Muslims throughout history, has always been of paramount importance. Extensive efforts have been made to understand and interpret this heavenly book. Muslim interpreters from earlier centuries to the present have consistently sought to comprehend the meanings of divine verses, revealing the intention and purpose of the Almighty, without necessarily equating their interpretive insights with the absolute meaning of the verses. In contrast, modern hermeneutical theories, both philosophical hermeneutics and structuralist/deconstructive approaches, have attributed considerable credibility to the role of the reader as the audience and receiver of the text, diminishing the significance of the author's intention and the absolute meaning of the verses (cf. Nietzsche, 2008: throughout the book). Some scholars, acknowledging the importance of the divine intention in the tradition of Quranic interpretation and dismissing the author's position in modern hermeneutics, have raised the issue of a widespread confrontation between contemporary interpretive theories and the prevailing view among Muslim interpreters (Vaezi, 2014, p. 54). This article precisely articulates this distinction, asserting that a detailed examination of perspectives and elucidation of the theoretical components of the studied theories do not necessarily reveal a broad confrontation between them.

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