Zahir (Islam)
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Ẓāhir or zaher (
In
Zahir is also the underlying principle of the
According to the "Epistle of the Right Path", a post-Mongol Persian-Ismaili treatise, the zahir (exoteric) form and the batin (esoteric) essence co-exist, in that the zahir (exoteric) form is the manifestation of the batin (esoteric) essence. The zahir (outer form) without the batin (essence) is just like a mirage or an illusion.[3]
Many Ismaili Muslim thinkers have stressed the importance of the balance between the exoteric (ẓāhir) and the esoteric (batin) in the understanding of faith, and have explained that spiritual interpretation (ta’wil) entails elucidating the esoteric meaning (bātin) from the exoteric form (ẓāhir).[4]
References
- ^ "Zahir - Oxford Islamic Studies Online". University of Oxford. 2008-05-06. Archived from the original on November 19, 2015. Retrieved 2015-12-31.
- ISBN 9781556434327.
- S2CID 170748666.
- ^ Virani, Shafique (2019). "Hierohistory in Qāḍī l-Nuʿmān's Foundation of Symbolic Interpretation (Asās al-Taʾwīl): The Birth of Jesus". Studies in Islamic Historiography: 147.
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