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" Corruptions, imitations, and innovations: Tropes of ibn Taymiyya's polemics "
Faris Al Ahmad
Akasoy, Anna Ayse; Davis, Simon
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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803455
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TL48244
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1689457598; 1588904
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Mevorach, Ian
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Corruptions, imitations, and innovations: Tropes of ibn Taymiyya's polemics\ Faris Al AhmadAkasoy, Anna Ayse; Davis, Simon
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City University of New York
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2015
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M.A.
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Middle Eastern Studies
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2015
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71
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-75521-3
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Most of the Mamluk theologian Taqī al-Dīn Ahmad ibn Taymiyya’s opinions had a polemical nature. This paper traces certain common tropes of Ibn Taymiyya’s polemics such as <i>tahrīf</i> (corruption), <i> taqlīd</i> (imitation), and <i>bid‘a</i> (innovation) that he repeatedly used in some of his judgments that targeted Christians, Jews, Sufis, <i>mutakallimūn</i>, philosophers, and Nusayris. The paper argues that what connects all of these groups in Ibn Taymiyya’s polemics is the tropes of corruption, imitation, and innovation that he identified in their thought and practice. When investigating Ibn Taymiyya’s polemics within the broader array of religious polemics, a consideration of his commentaries on different groups is important. The fact is that Ibn Taymiyya does not target a religious or intellectual group per se. He targets certain “corrupted or innovated” ideas and practices done by certain groups and being blindly “imitated” by other groups. He does not tolerate any mistakes in theology as a result of the imperfect human intellect not only by the followers of other religions, but also by Muslims. In his judgment strategies, Ibn Taymiyya referred to Muslim, Christian, and Jewish scriptures as well as analytical methods of reason and logic. Nonetheless, he is convinced that Revelation should always take precedent over any human intellect methods in evaluating theology; otherwise, we will corrupt theology.
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Religion; Islamic Studies; Middle Eastern Studies
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Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Christian;Fatawa;Ibn Taymiyah, Ahmad ibn `Abd al-Halim;Ilm al-kalam;Jewish;Muslim;Polemics;Religious polemics;ibn Taymiyya
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Akasoy, Anna Ayse; Davis, Simon
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Middle Eastern StudiesCity University of New York
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