Millennials Age" editorial coined the phrase "Generation Y" to describe those who were aged 11 or younger as well as the teenagers of the upcoming ten years who were defined as different from Generation X. According to journalist Bruce Horovitz, in 2012, "Ad Age" "threw in the towel by conceding that millennials is a better name than Gen Y", and by 2014, a past director of data strategy at "Ad Age" said to NPR "the Generation Y label was a placeholder until we found out more about them". Millennials are sometimes called "Echo Boomers", due to their being the offspring of
Esoteric interpretation of the Quran 'ta'wil' was commonly regarded as the esoteric or mystical interpretation of the Quran, while the conventional exegesis of the Quran was called "tafsir". The term "batin" refers to the inner or esoteric meaning of a sacred text, and "zahir" to the apparent or exoteric meaning. Esoteric interpretations are found in Shia and Sunni interpretations of the Quran. A hadith which states that the Quran has an inner meaning, and that this inner meaning conceals a yet deeper inner meaning, and so on (up to seven successive levels of deeper meaning), has sometimes been used in support of this view. Scholars