Document Type : Research Paper
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1 Assistant Professor of Quran and Jurisprudence Department, Faculty of Theology and Islamic Studies, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
2 Assistant Professor, Department of Quranic Sciences and Jurisprudence, Faculty of Theology and Islamic Studies, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
Abstract
Various perspectives have been presented regarding the nature and essence of interpretation. Traditional Islamic commentators consider the goal of interpretation to be the elucidation of the denotative meanings of verses and the discovery of divine intent. In contrast, modern hermeneutical and linguistic approaches identify the interpreter's findings or the overt and covert connotations of the text as the aim of interpretation. To investigate the nature and essence of interpretation, this research employs a comparative study, explaining certain components of textual actualization in Eco's view and comparing them with the approach of traditional ijtihadi commentators. Based on the research findings, Eco's semiotic theory posits a third possibility between the author's intention and the interpreter's intention, namely the intention of the text. According to this theory, through a process, the act initiated by the author is completed by the reader, and in this process, the concept of the text takes shape. In fact, Eco's theory shifts the concept of interpretation from 'discovering intent' to 'actualizing intent.' Unlike the approach of traditional Islamic commentators, Eco considers interpretative actualization to be the very understanding of the text, in whose process the author's intention plays a role as a criterion for the correctness and incorrectness of understanding. Accordingly, the latent potential of the text in unlimited interpretation and having numerous meanings does not lead to the acceptance of every type of interpretative act, and the text itself creates limitations in accepting possible interpretations."
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