چکیده:
More than fourteen centuries have passed since the revelation of the Quran. Throughout these continuous centuries, many commentators have engaged in explaining and clarifying the divine verses, each approaching God's verses from a specific perspective and turning to expressing divine purposes. A group of commentators has interpreted the divine verses by utilizing literary sciences, which has become known as literary interpretations. In the contemporary era, some commentators have emphasized the necessity of returning to literary interpretation and have defined a broader scope for it. This type of thinking quickly turned into an interpretive movement, and the founder of this movement was Amin al-Khuli (died 1968), who was influenced in this regard by Taha Hussein and Muhammad Abduh (died 1900) and has also trained students in this field. In this article, we aim to provide a summary of Amin al-Khuli's method in interpreting the Quran based on his book 'Manahij Tajdid fi al-Nahw wa al-Balagha wa al-Tafsir wa al-Adab' and to examine how Amin al-Khuli's theories were applied by one of his students, namely: Bint al-Shati.
خلاصه ماشینی:
In the introduction to these two volumes of her interpretation, Bint al-Shati complains that a limited number of Arab writers are interested in viewing the interpretation of the Quran solely as literary studies, and she also criticizes those commentators who interpret the Quran only by repeating previous traditional interpretations, most of which contain Isra'iliyyat — Jewish and Christian content.
3. Bint al-Shati has based her Quranic studies on a thematic approach, which consists of collecting verses related to a specific topic across various surahs.
When a word appears multiple times and in various forms in the Quran, Bint al-Shati examines verses that contain that word to understand how the Quran uses that word in different contexts.
In the book "Maqal fi al-Insan," Bint al-Shati begins the discussion of each topic by quoting one or two verses from the Quran that contain the subject of the original text.
Al-Khuli, by considering the hadiths of the Sunnah regarding "Shan al-Nuzul" (the occasion of revelation), says that commentators should know the "Shan al-Nuzul" of the verses, but they are only used when more explanation of the Quranic text is necessary and to provide a context for better understanding the circumstances related to the revelation of the verse, because they are not the actual evidence for interpretation; what matters is the holistic understanding of the text, not the specificity of the time of its revelation.