Text Linguistics and Usul al-Fiqh (Islamic Legal Theory): From Divergent Frames of Reference to Potential Hermeneutic Integration.
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Intentionality is considered one of the central concepts in text analysis, as it represents the main gateway to understanding meaning and interpreting discourse. However, its presence varies according to the epistemological and methodological references from which the humanities originate. The present paper aims to study the concept of intentionality through a comparative analytical study between text linguistics and the principles of Islamic jurisprudence, to reveal the points of convergence and divergence between the two fields in approaching textual meaning and regulating its interpretative mechanisms. This paper starts from the problem statement: to what extent can intentionality be viewed as a shared concept between text linguistics and the principles of Islamic jurisprudence, and does the difference in the epistemological background of each allow for the possibility of building an integrative approach to understanding the text?
The paper also concludes that intentionality represents a cognitive meeting point open to methodological dialogue between text linguistics and the principles of Islamic jurisprudence, which opens new horizons for renewing the reading of both religious and linguistic texts, in light of an integrative approach that combines the pragmatic dimension and the teleological dimension.
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