Investigating the Foundations of Hermeneutic Quranic Theology in Allama Tabatabaie’s Thought

Hermeneutics, as a type of knowledge dealing with the process of understanding a work, has three important schools: (1) classic hermeneutics; (2) philosophical hermeneutics; and (3) modern hermeneutics. Among them, the Quranic hermeneutics, as some knowledge that deals with exploring the process of understanding the Holy Quran, enjoys a series of discussions on the foundations of theology, anthropology, and studying the Quran; and its principles is at odds with the foundations of philosophical hermeneutics. The present writing uses a descriptive-analytical method to explore the Quranic hermeneutic bases of theology in Allama Tabatabaie’s view. In this inquiry, it is clarified that three doctrines of ‘divine wisdom’, ‘divine knowledge’ and ‘divine speech’ form the theological bases of the Quranic hermeneutics, each of them stating some principles of the Quranic hermeneutics and having a direct effect on the process of understanding the Holy Quran.