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Excellence of Druze System:--Each one of the Druze legislator-prophets abrogated in his turn the law of the preceding one. So did the Isms'iliyyah prophets. The antecedent of this general idea should be sought in the abrogation by Muhammad of the Jewish law 38:4 and is in harmony, though not identical, with the Marcionite Gnostic theories. As a corollary to that, the Druzes consider all former religions, including Christianity, Judaism, and Islam as forerunners and varied type of Druzism, which supersedes and excels them all.

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The Batiniyyah:--Having deviated from the letter as well as from the word of Allah as revealed in the Koran, and without seeming to abrogate altogether it's legislative precepts, certain schools of thought, designated by orthodox theologians Batiniyyah, found it expedient to resort to a new and ingenious device--that of interpreting the religious facts esoterically or allegorically. Though classified by al-Baghdadi, al-Shahrastani and ibn-Hazm as "sects" the Batinayyah were rather unorganized philosophical schools of thought...