The relaiton between interpretation and social life in Qurtubi's i̇nterpretation a case study of surah al-Bakara

Religious texts are neither irrelevant from life, universe and social facts and nor randomwords. Especially Quran, in this respect, covers all areas of life, and makereferences to all facts about humanbeing and establish principles about it. Yet the aim of the universal message of Quran is to be understood by humankind, to be lived by it and be illuminated by it. In that case all text that aims to illuminate humankind starting with Quran have to be in relation with social life and to direct it. Thus each and every verse of Quran is about the probable or real problems of everydayand social lifeanddealingwithit. Such that when we take a general look at Quran we can see that moral, legal, political and religious principles are built. Eventually the self-explaining concept of Quran is forcing everyone to interact it with social life. It is obvious that interpreters, the one and only addressee of this call, are influenced by their social life and era. Therefore this work focused on the relation between social life and exegesis consists of an introduction and two chapters: In the first chapter we will investigate the influence of politics, art, legal and moral principles on the interpretations by referring to Ibn-i Haldun's words in his book Muqaddima "social life is necessary for humankind." Besides Qurtubī and his work is investigated on the same topic with making references to previous and later scholars and their works. In the second chapter we try to show the relation between social life and exegesis by focusing on the work of a classical era scholar.