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.

Early Mamlūk Ashʿarism against Ibn Taymiyya on the Nonliteral Reinterpretation (taʾwīl) of God’s Attributes (2020)
Book Chapter
Hoover, J. (2020). Early Mamlūk Ashʿarism against Ibn Taymiyya on the Nonliteral Reinterpretation (taʾwīl) of God’s Attributes. In A. Shihadeh, & J. Thiele (Eds.), Philosophical Theology in Islam: Later Ashʿarism East and West (195-230). Leiden, Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004426610_009

Modern research on theological production in the early Mamlūk sultanate of Egypt and Syria has focused primarily on the prolific Ḥanbalī theologians Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728/1328) and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya (d. 751/1350).2 This does not mean, however, th... Read More about Early Mamlūk Ashʿarism against Ibn Taymiyya on the Nonliteral Reinterpretation (taʾwīl) of God’s Attributes.

Ibn Taymiyya (2019)
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Hoover, J. (2019). Ibn Taymiyya. London, England: Oneworld Academic

Ibn Taymiyya (1263-1328) of Damascus was one of the most prominent and controversial religious scholars of medieval Islam. He called for jihad against the Mongol invaders of Syria, appealed to the foundational sources of Islam for reform, and battled... Read More about Ibn Taymiyya.

Foundations of Ibn Taymiyya's religious utilitarianism (2019)
Book Chapter
Hoover, J. (2019). Foundations of Ibn Taymiyya's religious utilitarianism. In P. Adamson (Ed.), Philosophy and jurisprudence in the Islamic world (145-168). Berlin: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110552386

Reason and the Proof Value of Revelation in Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s late kalām works Taʾsīs al-taqdīs, Maʿālim uṣūl al-dīn, and al-Arbaʿīn fī uṣūl al-dīn (2019)
Book Chapter
Hoover, J. (2019). Reason and the Proof Value of Revelation in Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s late kalām works Taʾsīs al-taqdīs, Maʿālim uṣūl al-dīn, and al-Arbaʿīn fī uṣūl al-dīn. In M. El Kaisy-Friemuth, R. Hajatpour, & M. Abdel Rahem (Eds.), Rationalität in der Islamischen Theologie. Band I: Die klassische Periode (373-390). De Gruyter

What would Ibn Taymiyya make of intertextual study of the Qurʾān? The challenge of the isrāʾīliyyāt (2019)
Book Chapter
Hoover, J. (2019). What would Ibn Taymiyya make of intertextual study of the Qurʾān? The challenge of the isrāʾīliyyāt. In H. Zellentin (Ed.), The Qurʾān’s Reformation of Judaism and Christianity: Return to the Origins (25-30). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315124278

Ibn Taymiyya’s use of Ibn Rushd to refute the incorporealism of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (2018)
Book Chapter
Hoover, J. (2018). Ibn Taymiyya’s use of Ibn Rushd to refute the incorporealism of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī. In A. Al Ghouz (Ed.), Islamic Philosophy from the 12th till the 14th Century (469-492). Goettingen, Germany: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

Reconciling Ibn Taymiyya’s legitimisation of violence with his vision of universal salvation (2018)
Book Chapter
Hoover, J. (2018). Reconciling Ibn Taymiyya’s legitimisation of violence with his vision of universal salvation. In Violence in Islamic Thought from the Mongols to European Imperialism (107-116). Edinburgh University Press