The Exegesis’s Significance from the Fundamentalists and Interpreters’ Point of View

Abstract

Interpreters, in studying indicator’s significance, have a different goal from that of fundamentalists, although both of them search in the same Qur’anic text, using this term. Such a difference has generated a number of issues related to the concept and function of the indicator for each side. Therefore, this study aims to find appropriate answers for these issues by showing the concept, purpose and function of what is indicated by both fundamentalists and interpreters, in comparing both standpoints. In fact, the nature of the study dictated that researchers rely on the analytical inductive approach, which has helped reaching a set of results. Among these results, the fact that the function of the indicator, from the interpreters’ point of view, is different from its function for the fundamentalists. The reason behind this difference is that interpreters aim through it to elucidate and remove the ambiguity in order to reach the meaning that the Qur’anic text bears, while the fundamentalists aim through it to clarify the meanings of the Qur’an in order to derive legal rulings. The fundamentalists’ definition of the indicator is compatible with their approach of interpretation, and the interpreters’ definition of the indicator is compatible with their approach, as well. The interpreters did not carry out special searches or chapters for indicator’s significance, whereas fundamentalists have carried out special investigations on the issue. The study recommended paying attention to this type of terminology, so as to study it independently in order to show, simplify and bring it closer, in a new way serving readers and interested people.