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.
"God Spatially Above and Spatially Extended: The Rationality of Ibn Taymiyya’s Refutation of Faḫr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s Ašʿarī Incorporealism," Open access.
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!
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.
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.
My 2007 book "Ibn Taymiyya's Theodicy of Perpetual Optimism" soon out in Arabic. Thank you Mohammad Khedr for translating and
@namacenter
for publishing.
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.
"Foundations of Ibn Taymiyya's Religious Utilitarianism" works out the ethical theory at the core of my forthcoming book "Ibn Taymiyya" with Oneworld Publications
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.
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.
"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
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.
I just finished reading this--fascinating insights into conflicts between Nasir al-Din al-Albani and various traditionalist interlocutors over law and hadith criticism.
🚨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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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.”
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:
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).
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.
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
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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.
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/
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.
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.
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.
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."
@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.
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"
@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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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:
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.
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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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.
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..."
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reviews
@jhoover04
in
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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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@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.