Ma`rifat Farhangi Ejtemaei

"Ijtihad" is one of the methods used in the production and compilation of Islamic human and social sciences. Various factors cause Islamic human and social science researchers to disagree when applying the "ijtihad" method and interpreting verses and narrations and to present different readings from the perspective of Islam in that issue. On the other hand, accepting the foundations of hermeneutics in reading the text and understanding and interpreting it also requires the emergence and acceptance of different readings of the text. Therefore, the question that arises is what should be done about Islamic human and social sciences if there are different readings? Is the discussion of different readings in the "ijtihad" method the same as the different readings that exist as a result of the hermeneutic reading of the text or is it different from it? The present paper has tried to show that the difference of opinion in the interpretation of verses and narrations is due to the difference in factors such as textology, the amount and manner of inference from the text, the language of the text, the degree of interference of knowledge outside the text, the possibility of textual interpretation, and the clues related to speech. So the present disagreements have nothing to do with what is proposed in philosophical and common hermeneutics.