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Esoteric interpretation of the Quran
Esoteric interpretation of the Quran (Arabic: التأويل الباطني للقرآن, romanized: attaʾwīl al-bāṭinī li-l-qurʾān) is the allegorical interpretation of the Quran or the quest for its hidden, inner meanings. The Arabic word taʾwīl was synonymous with conventional interpretation in its earliest use, but it came to mean a process of discerning its most fundamental understandings. Esoteric interpretations do not usually contradict the conventional (in this context called exoteric) interpretations; instead, they discuss the inner levels of meaning of the Quran. The Arabic words taʾwīl and tafsīr both mean roughly "explanation, elucidation, interpretation, and commentary"; but from the end of the 8th century CE onwards, taʾwīl was commonly regarded as the esoteric or mystical interpretation of the Quran, while the conventional exegesis of the Quran was referred to using the term tafsīr. The term batin refers to the inner or esoteric meaning of a sacred text, and zahīr to the apparent or exoteric...
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