Metodološka analiza gnostičke interpretacije i njezine osnove prema Ṣadr al-Dīnu Qūnawīju
The Methodological analysis of gnostic interpretation and its principles according to Ṣadr al-Dīnu Qūnawī

Summary/Abstract: By careful study of commentary works with the aim of reaching gnostic hermeneutics we reach two universal methods. The first is the reveling-inspiring (kašfī-elhāmī) method, the characteristic of those who poses spiritual experience (sāhebān-e zouq) and those who experience revelations and visions (ahl-e kašf wa šohūd), and who claim to have spiritually witnessed esoteric realities of the Book of Creation (ketāb-e takwīn) and the Book of Divine Law (ketāb-e tašrī‘), sensing within themselves with their whole being the complete correspondence between these two Books, thereby understanding from the Qur’anic verses realities which others are not able to understand. The second method is the application of general technical methods (fannī-ye ‘omūmī), in the sense that even those who are not used to spiritual revelations and visions can, by virtue of these methods, reach some of the esoteric meanings of the Qur’an and, in case they do not understand their reality, they can even get to know it through the rules and principles accepted by common people. The scholar Qūnawī used both the methods in order to understand Islamic religious texts. Nevertheless, this paper puts the main emphasis on his general technical method, because this method can be used by all Islamic thinkers. According to the authors of this paper, the principles of this Qūnawī’s interpretation method can be divided into three general groups: the ontological, the epistemological, and the linguistic. In addition to explaining these principles, the paper aims to explain the fact that Qūnawī’s interpretation method is based on stable principles which, besides gnostic orientations and attention to spiritual aspects and discovering secrets and hints, do not neglect the linguistic view as well.

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