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The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy now has an article on Ibn Taymiyya.
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Farid Suleiman's "Ibn Taymiyya and the Attributes of God" is a major publishing event in Taymiyyan studies. The work has been out in German since 2019, and Carl Sharif El-Tobgui has performed the invaluable service of translating it into English.
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Just received author copies of 'Ibn Taymiyya' (Oneworld), out in the UK on 5 December, in the USA on 14 January
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Glad to announce my 'Ibn Taymiyya' volume in Oneworld's 'Makers of the Muslim World' series is due out in December
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"God Spatially Above and Spatially Extended: The Rationality of Ibn Taymiyya’s Refutation of Faḫr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s Ašʿarī Incorporealism," Open access.
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Carl Sharif El-Tobgui "Ibn Taymiyya on Reason and Revelation: A Study of Dar' ta'arud" major new monograph open access Click on "Download PDF" Congrats to Carl!
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New book chapter: "The Muslim theologian Ibn Taymiyyah on God, creation and time," a summation of work I did mostly in the noughties.
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My discussion with Paul Williams
@freemonotheist
on Ibn Taymiyya's ethics. I explain what is meant by Ibn Taymiyya's 'religious utilitarianism' and its ramifications for his theology.
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New article of mine on theological opposition to Ibn Taymiyya in Shihadeh and Thiel "Philosophical Theology" volume:
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Here is the recording of my discussion of Ibn Taymiyya with Shoaib Ahmed Malik earlier this evening. Mostly on God's perpetual creativity and the problem of evil.
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My 2007 book "Ibn Taymiyya's Theodicy of Perpetual Optimism" soon out in Arabic. Thank you Mohammad Khedr for translating and
@namacenter
for publishing.
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I have updated my web page on major collections of Ibn Taymiyya's works with links to the texts. I encourage those writing on him to cite AIT and MF to facilitate traceability.
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"Foundations of Ibn Taymiyya's Religious Utilitarianism" works out the ethical theory at the core of my forthcoming book "Ibn Taymiyya" with Oneworld Publications
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Lecture on Ibn Taymiyya based on my article 'God Spatially Above and Spatially Extended'. Sign into Vimeo to watch.
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Forthcoming: Arjan Post, "The Journeys of a Taymiyyan Sufi: Sufism through the Eyes of 'Imad al-Din Ahmad al-Wasiti (d. 711/1311)." The author says there will be an open access version.
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Translation of my new Ibn Taymiyya book already being advertised.
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I was not aware that Joseph Bell had died in early 2020. His "Love Theory in Later Hanbalite Islam" (1979) is still worth reading and certainly did not receive the attention it deserved in the wider field of Islamic intellectual history.
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"A Muslim Conflict over Universal Salvation" (2015) is now green open access--draws together my earlier articles on Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya's views on Hell-Fire into a single narrative
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A superb article by Omar Anchassi, "Against Ptolemy? Cosmography in Early Kalām," or, roughly speaking, did Kalam theologians up to the 11th century think the earth was flat or round? Answer: there were advocates on both sides.
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1/ Online discussion of Talal Asad's paper, "Thinking about Religion through Wittgenstein" also draws on Ibn Taymiyya's discussions of metaphor.
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I will be discussing Ibn Taymiyya live tomorrow (Thursday) at 19:00 British Summer Time with Dr Shoaib Ahmed Malik.
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"Reconciling Ibn Taymiyya's Legitimisation of Violence with His Vision of Universal Salvation." My latest, in
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I just finished reading this--fascinating insights into conflicts between Nasir al-Din al-Albani and various traditionalist interlocutors over law and hadith criticism.
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Now green open access: my "Ibn Taymiyya’s use of Ibn Rushd to refute the incorporealism of Fakhr al-Din al-Razi"
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1/ "Foundations of Ibn Taymiyya's Religious Utilitarianism." Talk I gave two weeks ago.
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I have a short translation from Ibn Taymiyya's al-Jawab al-sahih on the Christian doctrine of redemption in this volume. Glad to see it out soon.
🚨Available to pre-order now: David Thomas ed., Reader in Christian-Muslim Relations 600-1500
Feat. my translation of Life of George of Sofia (15thc.), 1 of first Ottoman Neo-Martyrs + texts in arabic, syriac, persian, greek & latin!
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Today I start a two year stint as head of
@UoN_TRS
. I have the honour of serving an amazing group of colleagues in theology and religious studies.
@UoNHumanities
is running a
#HumanitiesStaffSpotlight
series. I will retweet TRS colleagues as they appear.
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Just out: 'Islamic Philosophy from the 12th to the 14th Century', ed. Abdelkader Al Ghouz
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News on Philosophy in Islamic World. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 2020 Rogers Prize to Khaled El-Rouayheb, “The liar paradox in fifteenth-century Shiraz: the exchange between Sadr al-Din al-Dashtaki and Jalal al-Din al-Dawani.”
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My chapter in 'Rationalität in der Islamischen Theologie' shows that Fakhr al-Din al-Razi is not quite as rationalist as he looks, even before his late scepticism:
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"Ibn Taymiyya and his Theology," a talk with Q&A on the first half of Chapter 7 in my recent book
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Also green open access: "Foundations of Ibn Taymiyya's religious utilitarianism" (publ 2019). This is the theoretical backbone of my book "Ibn Taymiyya" (Oneworld, 2019).
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My lecture 'Ibn Taymiyya and Sufism Revisited' today at The Markfield Institute of Higher Education on Facebook video:
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Arabic translation of "God Spatially Above and Spatially Extended: The Rationality of Ibn Taymiyya’s Refutation of Faḫr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s Ašʿarī Incorporealism." Thank you
@Al_Naimi95
for translating and
@sami_8945
and
@al_ghizzi
for assisting him.
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A selection from Ibn Taymiyya's Isbahaniyya on tawhid al-rububiyya
The first in an envisioned series of translations from Ibn Taymiyyah's theological works that cover a wide range of topics, from God's perfection, signs of prophethood, and the meaning of God's creative agency:
Ibn Taymiyyah on the Oneness of God
£6.00
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Great to see this out on Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya. Congratulations to
@asbosanquet
Just out:
@asbosanquet
, Minding their Place: Space and Religious Hierarchy in Ibn al-Qayyim’s Aḥkām ahl al-dhimma
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Marion Katz drawing on Ibn Taymiyya's Kitab al-mahabba to get at discussions about sexuality beyond the 'ulama'.
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Younus Y. Mirza, ‘“A Precious Treatise”: How Modern Arab Editors Helped Create Ibn Taymiyya’s Muqaddima Fī Uṣūl al-Tafsīr’, Journal of Qur’anic Studies 25, no. 1 (2023): 79–107.
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Yahya Michot recently published a collection of his articles on Ibn Taymiyya (some French, some English)
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"Ibn Taymiyya’s Impact on Early 14th-Century Mamluk Ash'arism", my paper at School of Mamluk Studies, May 2017
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This needs to be said for those who do not know it, but it also needs to be moderated with fact that Ibn Taymiyya's ideas were appropriated by some late medieval/early modern figures selectively. See my brief response at the end of
@bdaiwi_historia
's thread.
Ibn Taymiyyah (1263-1328) is without a doubt a dynamic intellectual figure that left an indelible mark on the Muslim intellectual world. But was his influence in medieval times exaggerated? A brief thread. 1/
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Walid Saleh shares his main research findings on the shift from the prominence of al-Baydawi's tafsir in the 19th century to Ibn Kathir in the 20th century, with role of royal patronage in making that happen.
If you missed his talk, meet Walid Saleh and his discussant, Scott S. Reese, on YouTube!
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Griffel: "Muslim theologians...wrote in both genres, kalām and ḥikma, and the same writers argued for opposing teachings on the nature of God, the world's creation, and the afterlife depending on the genre in which they were writing." Not uncontroversial.
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Yayha Michot on Ibn Taymiyya's "Epistle on the knowledge of the esoteric and of the exoteric" (MF 13:230-269) with translation of MF 13:235-242
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ابن تيمية والمصلحة: ٥) الحكمة في أفعال الله
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A tribute to an unsung hero in the field of Islamic Studies most of us have never heard of but who kept things like Brill's Encyclopaedia of Islam moving forward.
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"Law, Justice, and Grace: Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728/1328) on the Gospel's Relation to the Torah." Open access compliments of
@ER_journal
and
@CERES_RUB
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This is important (and not just because Ibn Taymiyya gets six pages).
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I'll be saying a few words after what is certain to be an interesting talk on Averroes's Kashf by Fouad Ben Ahmed, 28 January, 1600 UK time
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Fouad Ben Ahmed on Ibn Rushd, Ibn Taymiyya, and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya. Helpful in conjunction with my 2018 "Ibn Taymiyya’s Use of Ibn Rushd to Refute the Incorporealism of Fakhr al-Din al-Razi."
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Johanna Pink blog on diverse interpretations of "Do not take the Jews and Christians as friends" (Q. 5:51).
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@abhistoria
Thanks for this. Also of interest is Shahab Ahmed's "Ibn Taymiyyah and the Satanic Verses," where he shows Ibn Taymiyya upheld the historicity of the event.
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A huge thank you to
@FoziaBora
,
@sharaiz_710
and the BRAIS staff for an amazing conference in Leeds earlier this week.
A joyful discussion over delicious south Asian food (MyLahore Leeds) at the BRAIS conference this week, with
@sharaiz_710
@RamonIHarvey
@FoziaBora
@jhoover04
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amongst others!
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My new article is open access: “Theology as Translation: Ibn Taymiyya’s Fatwa Permitting Theology...
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Looking forward to this:
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ابن تيمية والمصلحة: ٤) العنف والصبر
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Arjan Post and Sarah Van, "Ibn Taymiyya and his Circle on samāʿ: a means to Purify Sufism?" Unfortunately behind paywall. In short, Ibn Taymiyya and his Circle argued that early Sufi masters "did not practice or endorse samāʿ"
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@bdaiwi_historia
There is that, which certainly needs to be said for those who do not know it, but it also needs to be moderated with El-Rouayheb's findings on Ibn Taymiyya in his book on 17th century intellectual history. I also attach a screen shot from p. 144 of my 2019 book on Ibn Taymiyya.
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Thank you to
@NewBooksIslam
and Elliot Bazzano for interviewing me.
Jon Hoover
@jhoover04
speaks about his book on Ibn Taymiyya from
@OneworldNews
's Makers of the Muslim World series (ed.
@scsincyberspace
). Long time
@NewBooksIslam
@NewBooksNetwork
#podcast
host Elliot Bazzano comes out of retirement for this conversation
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A very rich discussion of al-Razi’s tafsir by
@tafsirdoctor
🔥Very pleased to share our latest episode!
@tafsirdoctor
offers perhaps the most coherent introduction to this influential exegesist of the Quran revealing shortcomings in current scholarship on his work.
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ابن تيمية والمصلحة: ١) العبادات:
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A short green open access piece: "What would Ibn Taymiyya make of intertextual study of the Qurʾān? The challenge of the isrāʾīliyyāt" (publ 2019)
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A quick tour of the history of philosophy in the Islamic world
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Interview with David Thomas, editor of 'Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History',
@BrillPublishing
set to reach 25 volumes
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1/3 Interesting article on caliphate by Ovamir Anjum that is getting a grilling on historical grounds.
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Yasir Qadhi interviewed by Shoaib Malik
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2/3 I also have five videos on Ibn Taymiyya and benefit (maslaha) that draw out some key ideas in the book. The first is here, and the rest follow on from there:
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Arjan Post, "The Journeys of a Taymiyyan Sufi" on 'Imad al-Din al-Wasiti is now out in Open Access.
Forthcoming: Arjan Post, "The Journeys of a Taymiyyan Sufi: Sufism through the Eyes of 'Imad al-Din Ahmad al-Wasiti (d. 711/1311)." The author says there will be an open access version.
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Abdul Rahman Mustafa, "Ibn Taymiyyah & Wittgenstein on Language," (unfortunately behind paywall)
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Thank you to
@BerriahMehdi
and his team for the great discussions in the most congenial of places: Aix-en-Provence!
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Published in a great new volume "Philosophy and Jurisprudence in the Islamic World" edited by Peter Adamson
@HistPhilosophy
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Informative thread on the jinn building cities and the pyramids of Egypt.
The jinn are invisible beings said to live alongside humanity. They are associated with ancient ruins for it is believed they once built great civilizations of their own in a time long since forgotten by humans.
A thread on jinn and ancient ruins and historical sites-
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Mariam Sheibani, "Judicial Crisis in Damascus," Friday, October 23, 2020 3:00 pm Toronto time.
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Looking forward to reading this. Ibn Taymiyya features.
Does premodern Islam imagine a distinction between the religious and the secular? My take on this in the Oxford Journal of Islamic Studies :
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Ibn Taymiyya and Benefit (maslaha): 1) Religious Practices. First in a series of five videos. English version (Arabic to follow)
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I'm delighted to share the news that my doctoral thesis 'The Midwifery of God' has won the Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise 2023
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Due to the coronavirus, my book launch at the London Central Mosque this Saturday has been postponed until further notice.
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It is truly a sad day. The end of BBC Arabic radio is an immense loss.
Baba’s final statement for the last moments of BBC Arabic radio on air - so proud 🥹❤️
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@jbralston
I don't know. I advise students to read the relevant chapter in an intro (one of Rippin, Knysh, Hughes, or Brown), or the "The Early Creed" in The Cambridge Companion to Classical Islamic Theology. If you find something particularly good, please let me know.
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الشريعة والعدل والفضل: ابن تيمية (ت. 728هـ/1328م) وعلاقة الإنجيل بالتوراة. النماء الدورية 13.4 Open Access
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Thank you
@martinodiez
for this insightful review. The contradiction noted at the end between Ibn Taymiyya's militancy and the ultimate triumph of God's mercy is not a contradiction for him. See my 2018 article on this, now green open access:
"Raise your hand if you work on contemporary Islam and have not heard someone mention at least once the name Ibn Taymiyya..."
@martinodiez
reviews
@jhoover04
in
@fondazioneoasis
:
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Includes my chapter "Ibn Taymiyya’s Use of Ibn Rushd to Refute the Incorporealism of Fakhr al-Din al-Razi" and Yahya M. Michot, "Ibn Taymiyya’s Commentary on Avicenna’s Isharat namat X"
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New publication of mine: "Early and medieval Muslim attitudes towards Christian doctrines," pp. 168-175 in
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جون هوفر. علو الإله وتحيزه: عقلانية رد ابن تيمية على النفي الأشعري للجسمية عند فخر الدين الرازي. ترجمة: ناصر النعيمي. مجلة نماء
@JournalNama
. أشكر
@Al_Naimi95
على الترجمة و
@sami_8945
و
@al_ghizzi
على مساعدتهما للمترجم.
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@BeyondFound2023
Interesting question. But what is the justification for thinking Ibn Taymiyya might be anti-evidentialist? For him, our very existence and originatedness are evidence for the existence of the Creator.
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704-5 AH/1304-6 CE Qur'an of Mamluk emir (later sultan) Baybars al-Jashnakir. Full images online thanks to
@britishlibrary
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2/ Based on 2019 book chapter in Peter Adamson
@HistPhilosophy
"Philosophy and Jurisprudence in the Islamic World"
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