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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)
Journal Article
Hoover, J. (2023). God Spatially Above and Spatially Extended: The Rationality of Ibn Taymiyya's Refutation of Far al-Dīn al-Rāzī's Ašarī Incorporealism. Arabica, 69(6), 626-674. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700585-12341641

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.

The Muslim Theologian Ibn Taymiyyah on God, Creation, and Time (2022)
Book Chapter
Hoover, J. (2022). The Muslim Theologian Ibn Taymiyyah on God, Creation, and Time. In M. Schmücker, M. T. Williams, & F. Fischer (Eds.), Temporality and Eternity: Nine Perspectives on God and Time (89-104). Berlin: De Gruyter

Law, Justice, and Grace: Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728/1328) on the Gospel's Relation to the Torah (2022)
Journal Article
Hoover, J. (2022). Law, Justice, and Grace: Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728/1328) on the Gospel's Relation to the Torah. Entangled Religions, 13(2), https://doi.org/10.46586/er.13.2022.9466

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.