Abstract

The hermeneutic theory is regarded as old theory that was used since the era of Plato, and it deals with “explaining and removing ambiguity from a subject”. It is also a contemporary theory where many Western thinkers have tried to involve it in understanding religious texts and read these texts in the best way. This theory has been transferred to Islamic societies via certain Arab thinkers who underwent their academic studies in Western institutes and were influenced by their modernist thoughts over there. This is why they attempted to apply this theory on Islamic thought, through using hermeneutics in reading Quranic and hadith texts. In this study I have focused on the most important elements of this theory and its critiques, based on scientific foundations, and refuted them, emphasising on its inability in understanding Islamic texts.