Ibn Taymiyya and His Times

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FOREWORD BY THE GENERAL EDITOR ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS INTRODUCTION IBN TAYMIYYA AND HIS TIMES YOSSEF RAPOPORT AND SHAHAB AHMED PART I. BIOGRAPHY 1. Ibn Taymiyya wa-jam?'atu-hu: Authority, Conflict and Consensus in Ibn Taymiyya's Circle BY CATERINA BORI PART II. THEOLOGY 2. God Acts by His Will and Power: Ibn Taymiyya's Theology of a Personal God in his Treatise on the Voluntary Attributes BY JON HOOVER 3. The Qur'?nic Rational Theology of Ibn Taymiyya and his Criticism of the Mutakallim?n BY M. SAIT OZERVARLI 4. Ibn Taymiyya's 'Theology of the Sunna' and his Polemics with the Ash'arites BY RACHA EL OMARI PART III. HERMENEUTICS 5. Ibn Taymiyya and the Rise of Radical Hermeneutics: An Analysis of an Introduction to the Foundations of Qur'?nic Exegesis BY WALID A. SALEH 6. Human Choice, Divine Guidance and the Fitra Tradition: The Use of Hadith in Theological Treatises by Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya BY LIVNAT HOLTZMAN PART IV. LAW 7. Ibn Taymiyya's Radical Legal Thought: Rationalism, Pluralism and the Primacy of Intention BY YOSSEF RAPOPORT PART V. SHI'I AND CHRISTIAN POLEMICS 8. Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn al-Mutahhar al-Hill?: Shi'i Polemics and the Struggle for Religious Authority in Medieval Islam BY TARIQ AL-JAMIL 9. Apologetic and Polemic in the Letter from Cyprus and Ibn Taymiyya's Jaw?b al-sahih li-man baddala d?n al-Masih BY DAVID THOMAS PART VI. LEGACY 10. From Ibn Hajar al-Haytam? (d.1566) to Khayr al-D?n al-?l?s? (d.1899): Changing Views of Ibn Taymiyya Amongst non-Hanbal? Sunni Scholars BY KHALED EL-ROUAYHEB 11. The Sensitive Puritan? Revisiting Ibn Taymiyya's Approach to Law and Spirituality in Light of 20th century Debates on mawlid al-nab? BY RAQUEL M. UKELES MODERN INTERPRETATIONS AND MISINTERPRETATIONS OF A MEDIEVAL SCHOLAR: APPREHENDING THE POLITICAL THOUGHT OF IBN TAYMIYYA BY MONA HASSAN BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

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