Un nuovo approccio al Corano: dal ‘testo’ al ‘discorso’. Verso un’ermeneutica umanistica

The paper aims to introduce the author’s most advanced elaborations regarding Qur’anic hermeneutics and exegesis. Hermeneutic awareness is very keen in Abû Zayd. He recalls the methodology and the conclusions of such Muslim scholars as Amin al-Khuli and Muhammad Arkoun who suggested an innovative approach to the Qur’anic text. The author now focuses, however, on going beyond the meaning of the Qur’an as a simple “text” with all the literary and historical implications involved. Rather, it seems necessary to read the Qur’an as a whole of its discourses. The Qur’an is dialogue, between God and human beings, God and the Prophet, the Prophet and believers, the Prophet and non-believers, and the Prophet and the peoples of the Book (Jews and Christians). Discussion, dispute and negotiation should help in constructing a common ground of interrelation and communication between religions and cultures in the present globalized world. The final goal is to put forward a global hermeneutics promoting humanity and conscious participation in modernity.