Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Introduction
Ibn Taymiyya and His Times
Yossef Rapoport and Shahab Ahmed
Part I. Biography
1: Caterina Bori: Ibn Taymiyya wa-jama'atu-hu: Authority, Conflict and Consensus in Ibn Taymiyya's Circle
Part II. Theology
2: Jon Hoover: God Acts by His Will and Power: Ibn Taymiyya's Theology of a Personal God in his Treatise on the Voluntary Attributes
3: M. Sait Özervarli: The Qur'anic Rational Theology of Ibn Taymiyya and his Criticism of the Mutakallimun
4: Racha el Omari: Ibn Taymiyya's 'Theology of the Sunna' and his Polemics with the Ash'arites
Part III. Hermeneutics
5: Walid A. Saleh: Ibn Taymiyya and the Rise of Radical Hermeneutics: An Analysis of an Introduction to the Foundations of Qur'anic Exegesis
6: Livnat Holtzman: Human Choice, Divine Guidance and the Fitra Tradition: The Use of Hadith in Theological Treatises by Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya
Part IV. Law
7: Yossef Rapoport: Ibn Taymiyya's Radical Legal Thought: Rationalism, Pluralism and the Primacy of Intention
Part V. Shi'i and Christian Polemics
8: Tariq al-Jamil: Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn al-Mutahhar al-Hilli: Shi'i Polemics and the Struggle for Religious Authority in Medieval Islam
9: David Thomas: Apologetic and Polemic in the Letter from Cyprus and Ibn Taymiyya's Jawab al-sahih li-man baddala din al-Masih
Part VI. Legacy
10: Khaled El-Rouayheb: From Ibn Hajar al-Haytam? (d.1566) to Khayr al-Din al-Alusi (d.1899): Changing Views of Ibn Taymiyya Amongst non-Hanbali Sunni Scholars
11: Raquel M. Ukeles: The Sensitive Puritan? Revisiting Ibn Taymiyya's Approach to Law and Spirituality in Light of 20th century Debates on mawlid al-nabi
12: Mona Hassan: Modern Interpretations and Misinterpretations of a Medieval Scholar: Apprehending the Political Thought of Ibn Taymiyya
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Yossef Rapoport (PhD, Princeton) has been a Fellow in Arabic at the Oriental Institute, Oxford, and is currently a Lecturer in the Department of History at Queen Mary University of London. He has published on Islamic law, gender, cartography and the economic history of medieval Islam. He is the author of Marriage, Money and Divorce in Medieval Islamic Society (Cambridge University Press, 2005), and co-editor of The Book of Curiosities: A critical edition (Internet
publication, 2007). Shahab Ahmed (PhD, Princeton) is Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies at Harvard University. He has also been Assistant Professor of Classical Arabic Literature at the American
University in Cairo, Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows, Visiting Scholar in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, and Higher Education Commission of Pakistan Visiting Scholar in the Islamic Research Institute, Islamabad.