The critical edition and analysis of Baqillani's Kashfu Asrar al-Batiniyya

Batiniyya is a common name for those who believe that for every obvious meaning or any verse there is a secret meaning which the imam knows only. Due to their extreme beliefs they are also known as Galiyya or Ibahiyya becauseof their permissive beliefes. Sources belonging to early period of Batiniyya are limited. Because most of the resources of this period have not reached the present day part of the written sources in our hands are written in form of rejection by dissidents. One of these books known as "Kashfu Asrar al-Batınıyya" belongs to Abu Bakr Muhamad b. Tayyib al-Bakillani. This book affected many Ashari scholars for long times thereafter. But is was finally abandoned to the libary shelves with no possibility for researchers to reach it until today. It seems that no sufficient objective studies about Batiniyya has been published until today most of the studies that have been done seems to be written evidently either an aggressive style or a defensive approach. This work which we have examined and analyzed the book conTâins important information on Batiniyya. We hope that it will fill a large gap in the field and that it will provide important information to the researchers about the "firaq literature" and the Batiniyya.