The book Hermeneutics is a work of the contemporary Iranian author Ayatollah Sobhani.
It concerns hermeneutics meaning the area of study that analyses and explains written texts. What particularly is mentioned in the book is religious hermeneutics (commentary of religious texts).
The author
Ayatollah Jafar sobhani Tabrizi ,contemporary Iranian scholar. Born in 1930, in Tabriz into a religious family. He studied in Persian literature, the books “ Nasaab al- sebyan” , Abwab al- Jenan “ (the doors of paradise) , “ Mo jam History” in the presence of “ Mirza Mahmud Fazel”. Then he continued his studies in “ Tableiyeh school” in Tabriz he was trained into presence of great scholars : Ayatollah Ruhallah khomenini, sheikh Hasan Nahwi and Mirza Muhammad Ali Modems khiyabani Ayatollah sobhani is the founder of “ the center of Islamic theological studies” and also one of the great teachers in “ Qom seminary.
His works
1- Theological books and Mujam al- Mutakallemin
2- Mosoueh
3- The eternal light
4- wahhabism. etc.
The book structure
The book includes the following sections:
1. Methodological hermeneutics
2. Interpretation in the Koran
3. Philosophical hermeneutics
4. The Heaven
5. Commentary of the Koran
6. Implicit interpretation, etc.
The book was published in 2006in Qom-Iran.