Qoran Shenakht

As a rich source of divine sciences, the Holy Qur'an has different longitudinal and latitudinal levels and layers. This divine treasure, along with the hadiths narrated from the Holy Prophet’s Household (peace be upon them), recommends its audience to refer to all the semantic levels and layers of the Qur'an. The present paper seeks to underline these layers and show how to extract them in the specialist field of semiology, by demonstrating layer semiology. The research findings indicate that different semantic aspects of Quranic text are detected in inter-textual and intra-textual relationships by means of the multiplicity of denotative layers and levels in two pivots: vertical and horizontal. In addition to the multiple and different layers within itself (vertical pivot), which are realized through its relation with the internal semiotic system; the Quranic text has different aspects: philosophical, theological, political, narrative, intellectual etc, in the horizontal pivot each of which constitutes a concrete and textual manifestation of a code system. It is through his cognitive knowledge of the different codes, that the interpreter can realize these aspects. Therefore, layer semiology is regarded as a proper method and as a framework that can be used by the interpreters and a new way for understanding and discovering the different semantic layers of the Holy Quran