Mulla Sadra and Interpreting Quranic Keywords in a Polysemous Method

Quranic linguistics is one of the new issues in the Quranic sciences, being considered as one of the most important branches among the methods of understanding Quran. Semantics, one of the branches of Linguistics, is concerned with the study of the key words of Quran. By key words, we mean those words which can play an important part in making evident the different meanings of the Quranic verses, if their meaning is studied in a survey. In this article, focusing on polysemy in Semantics, we have pondered over Mulla Sadra's view on this issue and examined his commentary on some of the Quranic verses, as an example. Analyzing Quranic key words in a polysemous method will open new scopes to the scholars of Quranic sciences and commentary and in considered a new method for the subject-concerning interpretation of Quran in order to reveal its miraculous aspects, literally and semantically.