Document Type : Original Article
Authors
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Postdoctoral Graduate, Theology, Qur'an and Hadith Sciences, Visiting Professor, Islamic Azad University, Islamshahr, Iran.
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Assistant Professor, Department of Jurisprudence and Fundamentals of Islamic Law, Islamshahr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
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Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics and Foreign Languages, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
The manner and quality of approaching the revealed text is correlated with contextual conditions, needs, concerns, and other contemporary components. The geographical, social, and political contexts following the Prophet's (S.A.W.) death as well as the philosophical factors of existentialism have led to a heterogeneous approach to the text in terms of understanding or avoidance of understanding. Recognizing the causes of extra-human developments and the role of the perceivers in these transformations as intra-human factors and their impressibility from specific discourse rules determines the type of understanding of the perceivers, their approach, expansion, or abandonment of interpretation. On the other hand, the movement of interpretive narratives, like historical narratives, is linked to contextual signs and meta-linguistic elements. Accordingly, using a descriptive-analytical approach, the present study attempts to reappraise the heterogeneity of approaches to the revealed text in terms of interpretation, type, and abandonment of interpretation in the early period of Islam with reliance on library documents and benefiting from the discourse method and existentialist philosophy. It seems that existentialist factors, along with being placed in a meta-linguistic context, were effective in the way early readers approached the revealed text.
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