Ibn Taymiyya and His Times

Name: Ibn Taymiyya and His Times
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ISBN: 9780195478341

ISBN-10: 0195478347

ISBN-13: 9780195478341

Edition: 2010

Authors: Yossef Rapoport, Shahab Ahmed

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Book details

List price: $35.50
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 3/1/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 400
Size: 8.90" wide x 5.80" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Yossef Rapoport is an associate member of the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford.



Foreword by the General Editor


Acknowledgements


List of Contributors


Introduction Ibn Taymiyya and his Times




Biography


Ibn Taymiyya wa-Jama'atu-hu: Authority, Conflict and Consensus in Ibn Taymiyya's Circle




Theology


God Acts by His Will and Power: Ibn Taymiyya's Theology of a Personal God in his Treatise on the Voluntary Attributes



The Qur'anic Rational Theology of Ibn Taymiyya and his Criticism of the Mutakallimun



Ibn Taymiyya's 'Theology of the Sunna' and his Polemics with the Ash'arites




Hermeneutics


Ibn Taymiyya and the Rise of Radical Hermeneutics: An Analysis of An Introduction to the Foundations of Qur'anic Exegesis



Human Choice, Divine Guidance and the Fitra Tradition: The Use of Hadith in Theological Treatises by Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya




Law


Ibn Taymiyya's Radical Legal Thought: Rationalism, Pluralism and the Primacy of Intention




Shi'i and Christian Polemics


Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn al-Mutahhar al-Hilli: Shi'i Polemics and the Struggle for Religious Authority in Medieval Islam



Apologetic and Polemic in the Letter from Cyprus and Ibn Taymiyya's Jawab al-sahih li-man baddala din al-Masih




Legacy


From Ibn Hajar al-Haytami (d. 1566) to Khayr al-Din al-Alusi (d. 1899): Changing Views of Ibn Taymiyya among non-Hanbali Sunni Scholars



The Sensitive Puritan? Revisiting Ibn Taymiyya's Approach to Law and Spirituality in Light of 20th-century Debates on the Prophet's Birthday (mawlid al-nabi)



Modern Interpretations and Misinterpretations of a Medieval Scholar: Apprehending the Political Thought of Ibn Taymiyya



Bibliography


Index