Qoran Shenakht

In the twentieth century, we witness various attitudes in different fields such as hermeneutics, literary theory, and semiotics a common point of which is opposing interpretive intentionalism. According to them, the intention of the author does not play any role in the process of understanding and interpreting the text, and we should not take the real purpose and the intended meaning of the author as the goal and objective of semantic encounter with the text. On the other hand, author orientedness and interpretive intentionalism is one of the major characteristics of the acceptable and prevalent theory of interpretation among the Muslim scholars. The present article seeks two objectives. First it is an attempt to study and criticize the major reasons of the opponents of interpretive intentionalism defending the essential role of the intention of the author in the process of reading the text. Then it presents an account of interpretive intentionalism free from the flaws and deficiencies of certain accounts of author orientedness