man has listed the groups within the Muslim community concerning divine matters, calling them the Hashwiyya, the Ashʿariyya, the Muʿtazila, and the Bātiniyya. He mentioned the fourth group, the Bātiniyya, but offered no criticism of them apart from his account of the Sufis’ doctrine: that they seek knowledge by extinguishing their desires. If he has identified these people as the Bātiniyya, this is a grave error, even if some among them espouse the Bātiniyya’s views, just as some do among the speculative theologians