The book "Arabic Hermeneutics: Towards an Interdependent Model for Understanding Texts and Discourses" by Moroccan author Mohammed Bazi is an attempt to reconstruct the concept of hermeneutics (ta'wil) by returning to its origins. The study considers the concept's response to the vision proposed by the author, as well as its suitability for textual phenomena in two prominent dimensions: the religious and the literary, with the prospect of generalizing this vision to other types of texts—historical, philosophical, and legal—in a manner that suits their specific characteristics.

Mohammed Bazi defines hermeneutics as "every act of reading that aims to construct meaning, based on tools, references, and rules of operation, with an absolute commitment to the limits of interpretive rhetoric. It is the summary of collective experiences in framing understanding and reaching significance. The hermeneutics adopted by the Arab-Islamic interpretive system is founded on two rhetorics: the rhetoric of effective return to the framing reference (religious, doctrinal, linguistic, grammatical, rhetorical, historical, and social), and the rhetoric of extension towards investigating and forming meaning, along with the related judgments, hypotheses, and conjectures where direct reports are absent. It also involves making various connections between the text and its context, weighing different sayings, and shifting from the apparent to the esoteric." Thus, hermeneutics is linked to the meanings of entire sentences and phrases, encompassing the whole system, not just the part. This is confirmed by Ibn al-A'rabi's statement that exegesis (tafsir) is "unveiling the intended meaning from the problematic expression."

This study contains eleven chapters:

• Chapter One: The Chemistry of Hermeneutics: Towards Reconstructing the Concept
• Chapter Two: The Hermeneutics of Return and Extension
• Chapter Three: The Making of the Text and the Making of Hermeneutics
• Chapter Four: A Study on the Dilemma of Ambiguous Meanings
• Chapter Five: Building Meaning and Its Reception Strategies
• Chapter Six: Interdependence of Hermeneutic Mechanisms in the Discourse of Exegesis
• Chapter Seven: Hermeneutic Interdependence in the Discourse of Explaining Minor and Major Circles
• Chapter Eight: Opposition and Interdependence
• Chapter Nine: The Methodology of Interdependence: Grafting and Representation
• Chapter Ten: The Methodology of Interdependence and Expanded Oppositional Interpretations

Publishing House: Arab Scientific Publishers, Lebanon
Year of Publication: 2010
Number of Pages: 367