Reinvestigating the Bases and Methods of the Contemporary Literary Exegesis from the View of Amin al-Khuli

Meanwhile Amin al-Khuli has taken different steps in the exegesis of the noble Quran, he has reformed the literary exegesis of the noble Quran in his article “the Exegesis in the Encyclopedia of Islam with a literary look to the holy Quran” in the recent century. Postulating the holy Quran as a literary text, he tried to transmit (practice) understanding the principles of the literary text to the noble Quran like other texts. This paper has revealed the difference between his thought bases and exegetic method which he has been explained in his note in mingled form. Beside the necessity of the literary understanding of the holy Quran as a great text in Arabic language as the most important thought principle of Amin al- Khuli, the possibility of the Quran understanding (perception) by nonreligious scholars, believing to the effect of peripheral contexts such as environmental factors in the perception of the noble Quran, believing monosomy in the holy Quran and the noble Quran being postulation before the syntactic rules are counted of the foundation of his thought. Based on his belief, the necessity of the thematic exegesis of the Holy Quran, using the Quranic sciences for the perception of the noble Quran, paying attention to the culture and history of the revelation time, researching the meanings of terms and studying the phrases and sentences and using the psychology and sociology in the Quran exegesis are the stages of the Quran literary exegesis. Hence, employing the principles of the perception of the literary text in the holy Quran make the exegesis in the area of researching terms, the aesthetics of the Quran phrases with the different definition of rhetoric and using psychology in the perception of the varieties of the Quran speech in conveying the concepts to addresses flourish. Not considering the differences between the holy Quran with literary texts as God’s text and imagining the prefect conformity between them has caused false consequences to be achieved, especially in the works of Amin al-Khuli’s students.