Month: August 2024

According to Khalīl, then, it is reprehensible (makrūh) for someone to recite the Qur’an in a non-Arabic language (Ar. aʿjamī), [even] if that person is able to do so. Thus, it seems that the Malikite chief qadi of Cairo expresses himself in the same way as his predecessor. He seems to say that it is…

Drinking wine can signal: “I don’t do evil”. Ibn Taymiyyah (died 1382 AD) was an Islamic scholar against the consumption of wine. But when he saw Mongols drinking wine, he did not want to interrupt them because drinking wine prevented them from killing/stealing/plundering.

Article Although Ibn Taymiyyaʼs opinions on the Shīʿa can be inferred also from several earlier texts (Hoover 2018), his choice in Minhāj al-sunna to refute one by one al-Ḥillīʼs arguments in Minhāj al-karāma, resulted in a systematic work in which Ibn Tay miyyaʼs conception of Imāmī Shīʿism is given unprecedented elaboration. Along the lines of…

Article the notion of Ibn Taymiyya being influenced by Peripatetic philosophy is a topic long familiar to his modern critics in the Muslim world, from Muhammad Za : ¯hid al-Kawtharı¯ (d. 1951) to Sa ( ¯ıd Ramada: ¯n al-Bu¯: tı¯(d. 2013). Ibn Taymiyya’s bold but generally underappreciated contention that God is eternally active as Creator,…

While arguing that there is no creation ex nihilo (creation from nothing), Ibn Taymiyya used both Hud 7 and Fussilet 11 from the Quran, Sahih Muslim hadith 2653b and, interestingly, the expression in Genesis 1:1-2 in the Torah:

In addition to rejecting creation from nothing, Ibn Taymiyyah is also a Universalist and rejects the eternity of the torment of hell: https://www.academia.edu/49229114/_Response_to_Those_Who_Say_that_Heaven_and_Hell_Will_Pass_Away_by_Ibn_Taymiyyah?source=swp_share