(16) See Yakar, "
Exoteric and Esoteric Dimensions of Prayer."
Sufis' lack of interest in
exoteric Islam and religious rules has always been a point of conflict between the Sufis and the clerics."
Weinersmith's cartoon depicts a world in which humans are pushed into ever more absurd,
exoteric jobs.
For our purposes here those inconsistencies will be dichotomised with a Straussian methodology of 'double truth' (Smith, 2009: 3)--distinguishing between esoteric and
exoteric neoliberalisms.
It did not succeed; at least short-term as Hitler's Germany crushed France in 1940, bringing to an end Bataille's
exoteric College de Sociologie and his esoteric radical Acephale.
This compilation continues the tradition of sufi malfuz literature and discusses many aspects of both esoteric and
exoteric relevance.8
The
exoteric aspect of the truth without the esoteric aspect is hypocrisy, and the esoteric without the
exoteric is heresy.
According to Motahari, the validity of the
exoteric meanings of Sunnah is undisputable.