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God Spatially Above and Spatially Extended: The Rationality of Ibn Taymiyya's Refutation of Far al-Dīn al-Rāzī's Ašarī Incorporealism (2022)
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Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728/1328) wrote his tome Bayān talbīs al-ǧahmiyya to refute Ašarī kalām theologian Far al-Dīn al-Rāzī's (d. 606/1210) argument in Tasīs al-taqdīs that God is not corporeal, located, or spatially extended. Bayān talbīs al-ǧahmiyya is... Read More about God Spatially Above and Spatially Extended: The Rationality of Ibn Taymiyya's Refutation of Far al-Dīn al-Rāzī's Ašarī Incorporealism.

Law, Justice, and Grace: Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728/1328) on the Gospel's Relation to the Torah (2022)
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Early and medieval Muslim anti-Christian polemicists do not present a uniform account of the Gospel's relation to the Torah, and polemical concerns drive the positions they adopt. This article focuses on how Damascene theologian Ibn Taymiyya (d. 1328... Read More about Law, Justice, and Grace: Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728/1328) on the Gospel's Relation to the Torah.

Theology as Translation: Ibn Taymiyya's Fatwa permitting Theology and its Reception into his Averting the Conflict between Reason and Revealed Tradition (Dar? Ta??ru? al-?Aql wa l-Naql): Ibn Taymiyya's Fatwa permitting Theology (2018)
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The Ḥanbalī jurist Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728/1328) wrote his famous tome Darʾ Taʿāruḍ al-ʿAql waʾl-Naql (Averting the Conflict between Reason and Revealed Tradition) in Damascus sometime after 713/1313 to critique the “universal rule” (qānūn kullī) of the... Read More about Theology as Translation: Ibn Taymiyya's Fatwa permitting Theology and its Reception into his Averting the Conflict between Reason and Revealed Tradition (Dar? Ta??ru? al-?Aql wa l-Naql): Ibn Taymiyya's Fatwa permitting Theology.

Murtaza Mutahhari’s solution to the problem of evil (2015)
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The apologetic and pastoral intentions of Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya's polemic against Jews and Christians (2010)
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The Mongol destruction of Baghdad in 1258 and subsequent Mongol incursions into Syria through the early 1300s ushered in a period of great political and religious anxiety in the Near East. The Mongol Ilkhanid rulers of Persia and Iraq corralled the C... Read More about The apologetic and pastoral intentions of Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya's polemic against Jews and Christians.

Review of Frank Griffel, Al-Ghazālī’s Philosophical Theology (Oxford University Press, 2009) (2010)
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Islamic universalism: Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya's Salaf? deliberations on the duration of Hell-Fire (2009)
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Classical Sunni eschatology maintains that all those who believe that God is one will enter the Garden of Paradise in due time. Some monotheists may first have to endure punishment and purification in the Fire for their sins, but those with even the... Read More about Islamic universalism: Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya's Salaf? deliberations on the duration of Hell-Fire.

A common word: 'More positive and open, yet mainstream and orthodox' (2009)
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Writing the resistance: recent books on Hizbullah from Lebanese perspectives (2007)
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?????? ???????? ??????? ??????? 75 ?76 ?? ???? ????? Tafasir al-mufassirin al-qudama' li-l-ayatayn 75 wa 76 min surat al-Nahl (Ancient Interpretations of Surat an-Nahl 75 & 76) (2007)
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This article in Arabic surveys interpretations of the parabolic imagery in Qur'an 16:75-76 found in the classical commentators al-Tabari (d. 923), al-Razi (d. 1209), al-Qurtubi (d. 1272), al-Baydawi (d. 1282 or 1291), Ibn Kathir (d. 1373) and al-Jala... Read More about ?????? ???????? ??????? ??????? 75 ?76 ?? ???? ????? Tafasir al-mufassirin al-qudama' li-l-ayatayn 75 wa 76 min surat al-Nahl (Ancient Interpretations of Surat an-Nahl 75 & 76).

Ibn Taymiyya as an Avicennan theologian: a Muslim approach to God’s self-sufficiency (2006)
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The justice of God and the best of all possible worlds: the theodicy of Ibn Taymiyya (2006)
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Perpetual creativity in the perfection of God: Ibn Taymiyya's Hadith commentary on God's creation of this world (2004)
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The course of the Islamic debate over the origin of the world through Ibn Rushd (d. 595/1198) is well known. Kalam theologians and al-Ghazali seek to prove the temporal origination of the world, while philosophers such as Ibn Sina argue for the world... Read More about Perpetual creativity in the perfection of God: Ibn Taymiyya's Hadith commentary on God's creation of this world.