A Critique of Mohammad Mojtahed Shabestari's Interpretive Viewpoint | ||
| مجله علمی " فلسفه دین " | ||
| Volume 18, Issue 1, April 2021, Pages 99-121 PDF (541.39 K) | ||
| Document Type: Research Paper | ||
| DOI: 10.22059/jpht.2021.300751.1005744 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Abdolhosein Khosropanah* 1; Mohammad Ghomi2 | ||
| 1Professor, Research Institute for Islamic Culture and Thought, Qom, Iran | ||
| 2PhD of Transcendent Theosophy, Iranian Institute of Philosophy, Tehran, Iran | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Relying on his hermeneutic and interpretive perspective, Mohammad Mojtahed Shabestari regards the Holy Quran as "prophetic words" and the Prophet's monotheistic reading of the world in the light of revelation. In this paper, we have used a library-research method within the descriptive-analytical approach to criticize his interpretive perspective to illustrate the weaknesses of this view so as to indicate the weakness of his theory of the prophetic origin of the Qur'an. In addition to the fact that his interpretive theory leads to the denial of prophethood and Islam, there are also other weaknesses in that theory. These involve ignoring the other meaning of interpretation, not paying attention to all kinds of presuppositions, not paying attention to the degrees of understanding and implications, integrating two perspectives as well as two methods which are incompatible, generalizing the doctrines of the age of modernity and philosophical hermeneutics, confusion of part and whole, not adhering to one of his foundations, introducing a loose criterion as a criterion for the examination and evaluation of presuppositions, and ignoring the most important use of language. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Mojtahed Shabestari; Interpretation; Understanding; Revelation; Hermeneutics | ||
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