Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya

Edited volumes:

Shadow. Bori, Caterina, and Livnat Holtzman, eds. A Scholar in the Shadow: Essays in the Legal and Theological Thought of Ibn Qayyim Al-Ğawziyyah. Oriente Moderno monograph series 90.1, 2010.

Debating. Krawietz, Birgit, and Georges Tamer, eds. Islamic Theology, Philosophy and Law: Debating Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2013.

Articles, books, and book chapters:

Abdul-Mawjûd, Salâhud-Dîn ʻAlî. The Biography of Imâm Ibn al-Qayyim. Trans. by Abdul-Râfi Adewale Imâm. Riyadh: Darussalam, 2006.

Abu Zaid, Bakr Bin Abd al-Malik. Al-Taqrib li-fiqh Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya. Riyadh: Dār al-hilāl, 19--.

Accad, Martin. “Muhammad’s Advent as the Final Criterion for the Authenticity of the Judeo-Christian Tradition: Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya’s Hidāyat al-Ḥayārā Fī Ajwibat al-Yahūd wa-’l-Naṣārā.” In The Three Rings: Textual Studies in the Historical Trialogue of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Edited by Barbara Roggema, Marcel Poorthuis and Pim Valkenberg, 217-36. Leuven: Peeters, 2005.

Accad, Martin. “The Ultimate Proof Text: The Interpretation of John 20.17 in Muslim-Christian Dialogue (Second/Eighth-Eighth/Fourteenth Centuries).” In Christians at the Heart of Islamic Rule: Church Life and Scholarship in ʿAbbasid Iraq. Edited by David Thomas, 199-214. Leiden: Brill, 2003.

Anjum, Ovamir. “Mystical Authority and Governmentality in Medieval Islam.” In Sufism and Society: Arrangements of the Mystical in the Muslim World, 1200-1800, ed. John J. Curry and Erik S. Ohlander, 71-93. London: Routledge, 2012. (on Madārij al-sālikīn)

Anjum, Ovamir. "Sufism without Mysticism? “Ibn Qayyim al-Ğawziyyah's Objectives in Madāriğ al-sālikīn.” In Shadow, 161-188.

Arif, Syamsuddin. "Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya in the 'Lands Below the Wind': An Ideological Father of Radicalism or a Popular Sufi Master?" In Debating, 220-249.

Belhaj, Abdessamad. “Disputation Is a Fighting Sport: Munāẓarah according to Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawzīyah.” Mamlūk Studies Review 19 (2016): 79–89. [Open access]

Belhaj, Abdessamad. “Ibn Qayyim al-Ğawziyyah et sa contribution à la rhétorique arabe.” In Shadow, 151-160.

Belhaj, Abdessamad. “Law and Order According to Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya: A Re-Examination of siyāsa sharʿiyya." In Debating, 400-421.

Bell, Joseph Norment. Love Theory in Later Ḥanbalite Islam. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1979.

Ben Ahmed, Fouad. “Ibn Rushd in the Ḥanbalī Tradition. Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya and the Continuity of Philosophy in Muslim Contexts.” The Muslim World 109.4 (2019): 561–581.

Böttcher, Annabelle. “Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya as Changing Salafi Icons.” In Debating, 461-492.

Bori, Caterina. “The Collection and Edition of Ibn Taymīyah’s Works: Concerns of a Disciple.” Mamlūk Studies Review 13.2 (2009): 47-67. [Open access]

Bori, Caterina, and Livnat Holtzman. "A Scholar in the Shadow." In Shadow, 13-44.

Bosanquet, Antonia. Minding Their Place: Space and Religious Hierarchy in Ibn al-Qayyim’s Aḥkām Ahl al-Dhimma. Minding Their Place. Leiden: Brill, 2020.

Bosanquet, Antonia. “The kitābī Wife’s Conversion to Islam: An Unusual Interpretation by Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya.” Islamic Law and Society online first (2019): 1–28.

Cooke, Francis T. “Ibn Al-Qaiyim’s Kitāb Al-Rūḥ.” The Moslem World 25, (1935): 129-44.

Ferré, André. “Muhammad a-T-Il Exclu De L'arabie Les Juifs Et Les Chrétiens.” Islamochristiana 16, (1990): 43-65.

Freidenreich, David M. "Five Questions about Non-Muslim Meat: Toward a New Appreciation of Ibn Qayyim al-Ğawziyyah's Contribution to Islamic Law." In Shadow, 89-110.

Frenkel, Yehoshua. "Islamic Utopia under the Mamluks: The Social and Legal Ideals of Ibn Qayyim al-Ğawziyyah." In Shadow, 67-87.

Friedmann, Yohanan. Tolerance and Coercion in Islam: Interfaith Relations in the Muslim Tradition. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Gobillot, Geneviève. “Corps (badan), âme (nafs) et esprit (rūḥ) selon Ibn Qayyim al-Ğawziyyah à travers son Kitāb al-rūḥ: Entre théologie rationnelle et pensée mystique." In Shadow, 229-258.

Haque, Omar Sultan. “Brain Death and Its Entanglements: A Redefinition of Personhood for Islamic Ethics.” Journal of Religious Ethics 36.1 (2008): 13-36.

Holtzman, Livnat. “Accused of Anthropomorphism: Ibn Taymiyya’s Miḥan as Reflected in Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya’s Al-Kāfiya Al-Shāfiya.” The Muslim World 106.3 (2016): 561–587.

Holtzman, Livnat. “Debating the Doctrine of jabr (Compulsion): Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya Reads Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī.” In Debating, 61-93.

Holtzman, Livnat. “Elements of Acceptance and Rejection in Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya’s Systematic Reading of Ibn Ḥazm.” In Ibn Ḥazm of Cordoba: The Life and Works of a Controversial Thinker, ed. Camilla Adang, Maribel Fierro, and Sabine Schmidtke, 601–44. Leiden: Brill, 2013.

Holtzman, Livnat. “Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah.” In Essays in Arabic Literary Biography. Edited by Joseph E. Lowry and Devin J. Stewart, 202-23. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2009.

Holtzman, Livnat. “Insult, Fury, and Frustration: The Martyrological Narrative of Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawzīyah’s Al-Kāfiyah Al-Shāfiyah.” Mamlūk Studies Review 17 (2013): 155–98. [open access]

Hoover, Jon. "A Muslim Conflict over Universal Salvation," in Alternative Salvations: Engaging the Sacred and the Secular, ed. Hannah Bacon, Wendy Dossett, and Steve Knowles (London: Bloomsbury, 2015), 160-171.

Hoover, Jon. “Against Islamic Universalism: ʿAlī al-Ḥarbi’s 1990 Attempt to Prove that Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya Affirm the Eternity of Hell-Fire." In Debating, 377-399.

Hoover, Jon. “God’s Wise Purposes in Creating Iblīs: Ibn Qayyim al-Ğawziyyah’s Theodicy of God’s Names and Attributes.” In Shadow, 113-134. [pdf]

Hoover, Jon. "Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya," in Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Vol. 4 (1200-1350), ed. David Thomas and Alex Mallett (Leiden: Brill 2012), 989-1002. [pdf]

Hoover, Jon. “Islamic Universalism: Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya’s Salafī Deliberations on the Duration of Hell-Fire.” The Muslim World 99.1 (2009): 181-201. [Open Access]

Hoover, Jon. “The Apologetic and Pastoral Intentions of Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya’s Polemic against Jews and Christians.” The Muslim World 100.4 (2010): 476-89. [Open Access]

Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya. Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya on the Invocation of God: Al-Wābil al-ṣayyib min al-kalim al-ṭayyib. Translated by Michael Abdurrahman Fitzgerald and Moulay Youssef Slitine. Cambridge, UK: Islamic Texts Society, 2000.

Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya. The Journey of Love: Al-Ḥaj Riḥlat al-ḥubb min al-qaṣīdah al-mīmīyāt li-bin al-Qayyim: Ibn al-Qayyim’s Poem on the Hajj. Translated by Usama Hasan. London: Al-Quran Society, 2004.

Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya. Medicine of the Prophet. Translated by Penelope Johnstone. Cambridge, UK: The Islamic Texts Society, 1998.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah. Provisions for the Hereafter (abridged) = Mukhtaṣar zād al-maʻād. Summarized by Muhammad Ibn Abdul Wahhab At-Tamimi. Riyadh: Darussalam, 2003.

Johansen, Baber. “Signs as Evidence: The Doctrine of Ibn Taymiyya (1263-1328) and Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya (D. 1351) on Proof.” Islamic Law and Society 9, (2002): 168-93.

Katz, Marion Holmes. “Beyond Ḥalāl and Ḥarām: Ghayra (‘Jealousy’) as a Masculine Virtue in the Work of Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya.” Cultural History 8.2 (2019): 202–25. [link]

Kister, M. J. “'Do Not Assimilate Yourselves...' Lā Tashabbahū….” In Muslims and Others in Early Islamic Society. Edited by Robert Hoyland, 125-57. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2004.

Kokoschka, Alina, and Birgit Krawietz. "Appropriation of Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya: Challenging Expectations of Ingenuity." In Debating, 1-33.

Krawietz, Birgit. “Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawzīyah: His Life and Works.” Mamlūk Studies Review 10, no. 2 (2006): 19-64. [open access]

Krawietz, Birgit. “Islamic Conceptions of the Evil Eye.” Medicine and Law 21, (2002): 339-55.

Krawietz, Birgit. “Transgressive Creativity in the Making. Ibn Qayyim al-Ğawziyyah’s Reframing within Ḥanbalī Legal Methodology.” In Shadow, 47-66.

Langermann, Y. Tzvi. "Ibn al-Qayyim's Kitāb al-Rūḥ: Some Literary Aspects." In Debating, 125-145.

Langermann, Y. Tzvi. "The Naturalization of Science in Ibn Qayyim al-Ğawziyyah Kitāb al-Rūḥ." In Shadow, 211-228.

Laoust, Henri. “Ibn Ḳayyim al- ḎJ̲awziyya.” Encyclopaedia of Islam New Edition (2^nd ed.)

Levi-Rubin, Milka. “Shurūṭ ʿumar and Its Alternatives: The Legal Debate on the Status of the Dhimmīs.” Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 30, (2005): 170-206.

Livingston, John W. “Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah: A Fourteenth Century Defense against Astrological Divination and Alchemical Transmutation.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 91, (1971): 96-103.

Livingston, John W. “Science and the Occult in the Thinking of Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 112, (1992): 598-610.

Melchert, Christopher. "The Relation of Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya to the Ḥanbalī School of Law.” In Debating, 146-161.

Mustafa, Abdul-Rahman. On Taqlīd: Ibn Al Qayyim’s Critique of Authority in Islamic Law. Oxford: Oxford, 2013.

Noth, Albrecht. “Problems of Differentiation between Muslims and Non-Muslims: Re-Reading The “Ordinaces of 'Umar” (Al-Shurūṭ Al-ʿumariyya).” In Muslims and Others in Early Islamic Society, edited by Robert Hoyland, 103-24. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2004.

Ovadia, Miriam. Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya and the Divine Attributes: Rationalized Traditionalistic Theology. Leiden: Brill, 2018.

Pagani, Samuela. “Ibn ʿArabī, Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya, and the Political Functions of Punishment in the Islamic Hell.” In Locating Hell in Islamic Traditions, ed. Christian Lange, 175–207. Leiden: Brill, 2016. [open access]

Perho, Irmeli. "Ibn Qayyim al-Ğawziyyah's Contribution to the Prophet's Medicine." In Shadow, 191-210.

Perho, Irmeli. “Man Chooses His Destiny: Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya’s View on Predestination.” Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations 12, (2001): 61-70.

Perlmann, Moshe. “Samau'al Al-Maghribī Ifḥām Al-Yahūd: Silencing the Jews.” Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research 32, (1964): 5-136.

Preckel, Claudia. “Screening Ṣiddīq Ḥasan Khān’s Library: The Use of Ḥanbalī Literature in 19th-Century Bhopal.” In Debating, 162-219.

Qadhi, Yasir. "'The Unleashed Thunderbolds' of Ibn Qayyim al-Ğawziyyah: An Introductory Essay." In Shadow, 135-149.

Schallenberg, Gino. "Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya's Manipulation of Sufi Terms." In Debating, 94-122.

Schlosser, Dominik. "Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya’s Attitude Toward Christianity in Hidāyat al-ḥayārā fī ajwibat al-yahūd wal-naṣārā." In Debating, 422-458.

Smith, Jane Idleman, and Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad. The Islamic Understanding of Death and Resurrection. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1981.

Cyrus Ali Zargar, ‘Transcending Character and the Quest for Union: The Place of Union (al-jamʿ) in Commentaries on Anṣārī’s Waystations’, in Mysticism and Ethics in Islam, ed. Bilal Orfali, Atif Khalil, and Mohammad Rustom (Beirut: AUB Press, 2021), 163–86. (On al-Tilimsānī and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya)