Note 611 — Chapter VI
David Shea translation
Táwil is the allegorical sense of the doctrine. We have, upon the meaning of tanzîl and táwîl, a Dissertation written by Silvestre de Sacy: Commentatio de notione vocum Tánzîl et Táwîl, in libris qui ad Druzorum religionem pertinent, in the XVIth vol. of Comment. Soc. Reg. Scient. Götting., class. hist. et phil., p. 3 and seq.