Quran and Hadith Studies

Quran and Hadith Studies

Schleiermacher’s Model and the Interaction of the Textual and Circumstantial Contexts in Hermeneutic Circle Proportionate to the Qur’ān

Document Type : Research Article

Authors
Malīḥa Qāyin Ibrāhīmābādī
Muḥsin Ḥusaynzāda Bājgīrān
10.22067/naqhs.v45i2.17930
Abstract
This research is intended to present an elucidation of interaction between textual context and circumstantial context while comprehending the text. This interaction is maintained in a specific hermeneutic circle of comprehending the text. The Qur’ān is Divine Word and has characteristics that demands hermeneutic circle proportionate to it. Therefore, in this research the characteristics influential in how to comprehend the Qur’ān is studied and elucidated and, considering those characteristics, a hermeneutic circle proportionate to it is presented. In this presented hermeneutic circle, the interaction between the textual context (yielded by the intra-textual interrelations) and the circumstantial context (Revelation occasion whether general or specific) become quite systematic and entering it would take place on the basis of Revelation order. In this interaction the originality and validity of the text of the Qur’ān comparing the cause of Revelation is also taken into consideration.
Keywords
context
contextualize
hermeneutic circle
textual context (intra-textual proportion)
circumstantial context (situational proportion)
situation of Revelation
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Quran and Hadith Studies
Volume 45, Issue 2 - Serial Number 91
Autumn & Winter 2013-2014
October 2013

  • Receive Date 20 December 2012