1) Ethnic and religious slur 
Batiniyya was originally introduced by `Abu’l-Khāttāb Muhammad ibn Abu Zaynab al-Asadī`, and later developed by Maymūn al-Qāddāh and his son ʿAbd Allāh ibn Maymūn for the interpretation of Qur`an. It might sometimes be employed as a pejorative term to refer to those movements, such as Alevism, Ismailism, and often Sufism, which disti......