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Ibn Taymiyyah

Ibn Taymiyyah
ابن تيمية
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Born 10 Rabi' al-awwal 661 AH, or
January 22, 1263 CE
Harran, Sultanate of Rum
Died 20 Dhu al-Qi'dah 728 AH, or
September 26, 1328 (aged 64–65)
Damascus, Sham
Nationality Sham, under Bahri Mamluk Sultanate Mameluke Flag.svg
Ethnicity Kurdish or Arab
Era late High Middle Ages or Crisis of the Late Middle Ages
Religion Islam
Denomination Sunni
Jurisprudence Hanbali madhhab
Creed Athari
Movement Classical Salafism
Alma mater Madrasa Dar al-Hadith as-Sukariya
Sufi order Qadiriyya
Arabic name
Personal (Ism) Ahmad; أحمد
Patronymic (Nasab) ibn `Abd al-Ḥalīm ibn `Abd as-Salām ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Khidr ibn Muhammad ibn al-Khidr ibn `Ali ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Taymiyyah;
بن عبد الحليم بن عبد السلام بن عبد الله بن الخضر بن محمد بن الخضر بن على بن عبد الله ابن تيمية
Teknonymic (Kunya) Abu 'l-`Abbās;
أبو العباس
Toponymic (Nisba) al-Ḥarrānī;
الحراني

Taqī ad-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Taymiyyah (Arabic: تقي الدين أحمد ابن تيمية, died 26 September 1328), known as Ibn Taymiyyah for short, was a controversialmedieval Sunni Muslim theologian, jurisconsult, logician, and reformer. A member of the Hanbali school of jurisprudence founded by Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Ibn Taymiyyah was also a member of the Qadiriyya Sufi order founded by the twelfth-century mystic and saint Abdul-Qadir Gilani. A polarizing figure in his own lifetime, Ibn Taymiyyah's contentious and iconoclastic views on such widely accepted Sunni doctrines of the medieval period such as the intercession of saints and the veneration of saint's tombs made him very unpopular with the vast majority of the orthodox religious scholars of the time, under whose orders he was imprisoned several times during his life.

Often viewed as a minority figure in his own times and in the centuries that followed, Ibn Taymiyyah has become one of the most influential medieval writers in contemporary Islam, where his particular interpretations of the Qur'an and the Sunnah and his rejection of some aspects of classical Islamic tradition are believed by some scholars to have had considerable influence on contemporary Wahhabism, Salafism, and Jihadism. Indeed, particular aspects of his teachings had a profound influence on Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, the founder of the Hanbali reform movement practiced in Saudi Arabia known as Wahhabism, and on other later Wahabi scholars. Moreover, Ibn Taymiyyah's controversial fatwa allowing jihad against other Muslims, is referenced to by Al-Qaeda and other jihadi groups.


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