He has developed a reputation as a thoughtful interpreter of canonic texts (a critic dubbed him "one of the most perceptive young directors of classics in the British theatre" as early as 1986), but has also put new writing centre-stage at the National, not least through his long association with Alan Bennett.
What we do not have is evidence that Mateen was a knowledgeable, learned, and invested interpreter of Islamic texts and traditions.
Another issue interpreters of Chinese texts must take into consideration in advancing their positions is the extent to which one may make generalizations about Chinese civilization and culture writ large.
In film the director is often, expressly or indirectly, the co-author of the text; in the theater, no matter how he "conceptualizes," he is the interpreter of a given text.
Nor does it help that every Muslim sect, society and state has developed differing versions of religious law.The fact that Islam's main text, the Koran, is regarded as the actual word of God necessarily assigns a paramount place to the interpreters of this text.
The readers and interpreters of the text have a decisive role in shaping the Quran's voice.
Moreover, as interpreters began to collect different interpretations of biblical texts, they tended to deal with conflicts between authorities by attempting to harmonize different opinions rather than simply keeping some and discarding others.
After his return to the United States he attended lectures at Columbia University by D.T. Suzuki, an influential translator of Buddhist texts and interpreter of Zen thought.
First, empathy is no longer seen as the unique method of the human sciences because facts of significance, which a historian or an interpreter of literary and non-literary texts are interested in, do not solely depend on facts within the individual mind.
