The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (2455 page)

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Taw
d-i Il
h
(Divine Faith of Akbar):
see
AKBAR
.
Ta’w
l
(Arab.). In Islam a term for commentary on the
Qur’
n
. It was originally synonymous with
tafs
r
, but it became associated later with commentary on the content of the Qur’
n, and eventually with allegorical interpretation, often in support of particular schools or parties of Islam. It was a method held in some suspicion because of the danger of ‘explaining away’ the uncongenial, and it came to be held that ta’w
l could never contradict the plain sense.

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