Document Type : Original
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PhD graduate, Quranic & Hadith Sciences, Faculty of Theology &Islamic Studies, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
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Assistant Professor, Quranic & Hadith Sciences, Faculty of Literature & Humanities , University of Guilan , Rasht , Iran
Abstract
There is a two-way, even complementary, connection between the achievements of the commentators and the textual structure of the Holy Quran. This means that the type of epistemological approach of the interpreter when faced with the Quranic text plays a decisive role in how she interacts in the interpretive arena. Basically, the flow of understanding the Quran throughout history can be viewed through both "linear" and "non-linear" paths .In "linear understanding", the possibility of verbal, semantic, and denotative connections with other components of the text is sequential . But in "non-linear-network understanding", the interpreter, while paying attention to the scope of "linear understanding", is also faced with a network of complex intra-textual relationships in the Quran, each of which is related to the other in different ways. This article used a combination of an analytical-interpretive approach in terms of finding data and compiling propositions, based on reference to library sources, and in terms of analyzing, categorizing qualitative data, processing, and drawing conclusions.Therefore, this epistemological encounter of the interpreter with the networked text of the Quran can be considered a kind of flexible, communicative, and reciprocal state that can be realized at all different levels of intratextual components. On this basis, "network understanding" not only does not abandon "linear understanding", but while taking it into account, it also methodically develops and expands the horizon of looking at the "text", the level of expectations and perceptions of the interpreter regarding the "intention of the Writer and speaker".
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