The Relationship between Verbal Semantics and the Qur an- through-Qur an Interpretation with Emphasis on Allamah Tabatabai's View

Verbal semantics and the Qur’an–through-Qur’an interpretation have close relationship with one other. Using a descriptive analytical method, this paper seeks to clarify the positive role of verbal semantics in the process of the Qur’an –through-Qur’an interpretation, touches on its benefits and mentions the shortcomings of some semantic schools, while describing the points of similarity between the two approaches in the Qur’anic studies. For establishing the relationship between semantics and the Qur’an–through-Qur’an interpretation, two aspects are worth considering: the basis and the process. In the first aspect, the way each of these two methods looks at the role of the verbal and non-verbal structure and the status of intra-text relationships in understanding the meaning are studied. According to the second aspect, i.e. the process, despite the affinity between the two mentioned approaches, semantics, in the true sense of the word, can have a supplementary and constructive role in classifying and systematizing Qur’anic words, and in the establishment of the proving its systematic nature of the one’s knowledge of them and in the methodical control of pre-knowledge in the Qur’an–through- Qur’an interpretation.