Ibn Taymiyya - The Father of Salafism?
In this video we talk about a scholar who represents the very opposite tendency compared to many other figures we have discussed on this channel. Ibn Taymiyya is a controversial thinker, but one that has had a major impact on the contemporary Islamic world.
Sources/Suggested Reading:
Abrahamov, Binyamin (1998). "Islamic Theology: Traditionalism and Rationalism. Edinburgh University Press.
El-Rouayheb, Khaled & Sabine Schmidtke (2019). "The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology". Oxford University Press.
Hoover, Jon (2019). "Ibn Taymiyya". In the Makers of the Muslim World Series. OneWorld…
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