batin
(bāṭin)
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| (Language: Arabic) |
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| Short Description: |
Inner, hidden. |
| Long Description: |
The “inner learning” (al-‘ilm al-bāṭin), which means esoteric or Sufic learning, is distinguished from the “outer learning” (al-‘ilm aẓ-ẓāhir) of the Doctors of the Law. Al-Bāṭin, “The Inner,” is one of the Names of God in the Qur’ān. |
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| Source(s): |
Introduction to Sufi Doctrine (by Titus Burckhardt) |
| Notes & References: |
See Form and Substance in the Religions (Chapter “The Cross of Space and Time in Koranic Onomatology”) |
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