The man of Islam is not only a walking, speaking and reasoning animal (الحیوان الناطق), but he is a “living reader” (الحی القاري), who has been created to enable himself to regain his lost heavenly position by reading the word. “Reader of the Word” is a study that attempts to offer the worthy readers a non-violent way of dealing with the Hl. Quran as the “word of God” and to show them appropriate approaches to it. It deals with topics such as: “Faith comes from reading”, “human being as reader of the word”, “paradigm change: from “listening” to “reading”, “the shema commandment of the Hl. Quran: “Read!”, the anthropological foundation of reading”, “Reading as a (non-violent) dialogue with the text” and „interaction of reading”. The theologian Karl Rahner says that listening and questioning are the expressions of being human. Only in listening does a person become a human being. Man listens to what corresponds to him. This opinion is only valid in Christian theology of revelation, but it is too little for Islamic theology of revelation: In Islamic theology of revelation, it is mainly not listening and questioning that are the determinants of being human, but “reading”, perceiving, questioning and criticizing. For Christianity, the Word is fundamental, as is the identity of message and messenger, Gospel and Jesus Christ (s). But for Islam, the Word is fundamental, as is the Message, the Messengers, the Quran and the Prophet Muhammad (s). In Christian word theology, man - as a listener to revelation - opens himself to the word because he himself is imperfect. He is therefore dependent on something that is outside of him. In Islamic word theology, man - as a “reader of the word” - opens himself to the word that is in the Quran because he himself is imperfect. In Christianity, one deals passively with the word, but in Islam actively. Here one is not only a listener, but also a “reader” in an active form. Here, one must empower oneself to read the Word, to understand its content and to put its teachings into practice in one’s life. This doctrine of understanding or this new anthropological hermeneutics, which also entails a practice of life, aims to offer the following topics to Quranic and Shiite studies: 1. “Reader of the Word”. 2. Hermeneutics of the Word. 3. At the horizon of the Word. 4. The application of the Word. These are introduction to my Quran commentary, namely: “Tafsir-ul-Amin”. This speaks to a paradigm changing, that attempts - as dialogue with the text: 1. to break the culture of silence and 2. to enable everyone to read the “Word of God” and become a “Reader of the Word”!weiterlesen