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Batiniyyah
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Batiniyyah

School of Islamic thought that interpreted religious texts exclusively on the basis of hidden rather than literal meanings. Such interpretation gained currency around the 8th century among esoteric Shi'ite sects, especially the schismatic Isma'iliyyah, who believed that beneath every obvious meaning lay a hidden, true meaning, which the imam was empowered to interpret. While influenced by speculative philosophy and theology, the Batiniyyah remained proponents of esoteric knowledge. Sunnite Muslims condemned the Batiniyyah as enemies of Islam for rejecting literal truth and producing confusion and controversy through their multiple textual readings.
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Historically, the term batiniyya is a designation for the religious worldview of the Ismailiyya, or Sevener Shia, a worldview that was later integrated into and transformed in Islamic mystical discourses.
Turkish Alevi poetry in the twentieth century: the fusion of ... by Dressler, Markus / Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics
In this they may have been exhibiting behavior called batiniyya (dissimulation), wherein individuals adopt a position, due to powerlessness or otherwise, despite their realization of its falsity or even immorality, in the hope that some day when conditions change, they may be able to forego it.
Lebanon's divisive democracy: the parliamentary elections of 1992 by Khashan, Hilal / Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ)
 
 
 
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