A History of Exegesis up to the Sixth Century

Discussing the interpretation and explanation of the holy Koran has been long regarded by those researchers who have worked on religion and theology. A lot of researches have been carried on in this regard. Most of these researches are concerned with the formation of interpretation schools and their tendency to interpret, limits and rules. Besides, these studies center on man’s intellectuality and sentimentality, and the way he realizes religious topics and revelations. They also deal with explaining the verses in terms of the interpreters’ mental, conceptual, and religious background. To illuminate a number of these subjects, including how interpretation schools emerged and the divisions within them, based on hermeneutic experiences, and the reasons of these interpretive schools’ inclination toward hermeneutic interpretations regarding internal experiences, without matching them with the historical topics, the researcher has here worked, in detail, on this change in view in the language and writings of the interpreters. Besides, he has mentioned, to the utmost possibility, the origins, causes, and intellectual and religious reasons concerning the tendency toward that interpretation or explanations. Meanwhile, the researcher has also pointed out the books written on different Islamic schools.