Hamid Kasiri: Reader of the Word.
ILogos, Vienna, Qum, Isfahan, January 2024!
ISBN 978-3-99149-139-2
The man of Islam is not a walking, speaking and reasoning animal only الحیوان الناطق, but he is a “living reader” الحی القاري, who has been created to enable himself to regain his lost heavenly position by reading the word. “Reader of the Word” is a study that attempts to offer the worthy readers a nonviolent way of dealing with the Hl. Quran as the “word of God” and to show them appropriate approaches to it. It deals with the important topics such as: “paradigm change: from “listening” to “reading”, “the shema commandment of the Hl. Quran: “Read!” and “human being as reader of the word”. This new anthropological hermeneutics, or hermeneutical anthropology also entails a practice of life and offers the following topics to Quranic and Shiite studies: 1. “Reader of the Word”. 2. Hermeneutics of the Word. 3. On the Horizon of the Word. 4. The Application of the Word. These are introduction to my Quran commentary, namely: “Tafsir-ul-Amin”. This speaks to a paradigm changing, that attempts - as dialogue with the text: 1. to break the culture of silence. 2. to enable everyone to read the Quran as the “Word of God”. 3. to help people to become “Reader of the Word”!