Interpretation Ethics in Epistemological Geography of Koranic Studies

“Interpretation ethics” is one of the branches of ethics and an affiliate of applied ethics. The purpose of the present study is to delineate the epistemological domain of “interpretation ethics” in “Koranic studies”. Interpretation ethics, as an offshoot of applied ethics, is of an interdisciplinary identity. On the one hand, it is affiliated with ethics as an epistemological system [field of study], but on the other, it pertains to the epistemological scope of interpretation. Since this emerging science has not developed well enough and not been determined epistemologically, portrayal of the role and epistemological scope of interpretation ethics in the fields of ethics and Koranic studies can help us account for the method and type of research, and methodological and epistemological necessities. The study is to conclude that interpretation ethics comprises three scopes of action (the act of interpreting), process (the process of interpreting as research) and science (the epistemological breadth of the science of interpreting). Moreover, dependent upon the three-fold realms of the studies concerning Koranic understanding and interpretation, interpretation ethics can be investigated in three levels of pre-interpretation, during interpretation and post-interpretation (the product of interpreting).