Ibn Taymiyya's reception

See also the pages dedicated to Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, the Wahhabis and Saudi Arabia, and Salafism and Jihadism.

Edited volumes:

Times. Rapoport, Yossef, and Shahab Ahmed, eds. Ibn Taymiyya and His Times. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 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:

Adem, Rodrigo. “Ibn Taymiyya as Avicennan? Fourteenth-Century Cosmological Controversies in Damascus.” The Muslim World 108.1 (2018): 124–153.

Ahmad, Muzzammil, and Ian Greer. "Shāh Walī Allāh in Defence of Ibn Taymiyyah." Islamic Studies 61.1 (2022): 25–44. link (paywall).

Al-Kilabi, Ibn Jahbal. The Refutation of Him [Ibn Taymiyya] Who Attributes Direction to Allah. Birmingham, UK: Aqsa Publications, 2008.

Arabi, Oussama. “Contract Stipulations (Shurūṭ) in Islamic Law: The Ottoman Majalla and Ibn Taymiyya.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 30 (1998): 29-50.

Bori, Caterina. "Ḥadīth Culture and Ibn Taymiyya’s Controversial Legacy in Early Fifteenth Century Damascus: Ibn Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Dimashqī and His al-Radd Al-Wāfir (d. 842/1438)." In The Presence of the Prophet in Early Modern and Contemporary Islam. Volume 1. The Prophet Between Doctrine, Literature and Arts: Historical Legacies and Their Unfolding, edited by Denis Gril, Stefan Reichmuth, and Dilek Sarmis, 100–114. Leiden: Brill, 2022. Open access.

Bori, Caterina. “Ibn Taymiyya (14th to 17th Century): Transregional Spaces of Reading and Reception.” The Muslim World 108.1 (2018): 87–123.

Dayeh, Islam. “Reading Ibn Taymiyya in Granada. A Study of Inexplicit Citation.” The Muslim World 108.1 (2018): 154–171.

Dumairieh, Naser. "Could Sufism Have Been a Means of Spreading Ibn Taymiyya’s Thought in the Ottoman Empire?" The Muslim World 112.4 (2022): 422–435.

El-Rouayheb, Khaled. “From Ibn Ḥajar al-Haytamī (d. 1566) to Khayr al-Dīn al-Ālūsī (d. 1899): Changing Views of Ibn Taymiyya among non-Ḥanbalī Sunni Scholars.” In Times, 269-318.

Hassan, Mona. "Modern Interpretations and Misinterpretations of a Medieval Scholar: Apprehending the Political Thought of Ibn Taymiyya." In Times, 338-366.

Hoover, Jon. “Withholding Judgment on Islamic Universalism: Ibn al-Wazīr (d. 840/1436) on the Duration and Purpose of Hell-Fire,” in Locating Hell in Islamic Traditions, ed. Christian Lange (Leiden: Brill, 2016), 208-237. [Open access]

Johansen, Julian.  Sufism and Islamic Reform in Egypt: The Battle for Islamic Tradition. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1996.

Post, Arjan. The Journeys of a Taymiyyan Sufi: Sufism through the Eyes of ʿImād al-Dīn Aḥmad al-Wāsiṭī (d. 711/1311). Leiden: Brill, 2020. [open access] 

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

Riexinger, Martin. “Ibn Taymiyya’s Worldview and the Challenge of Modernity: A Conflict Among the Ahl-i-Ḥadīth in British India.” In Debating, 493-517.

Sheikh, Mustapha. “Taymiyyan Influences in an Ottoman-Ḥanafī Milieu: The Case of Aḥmad Al-Rūmī Al-Āqḥiṣārī.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (Third Series) 25.1 (2015): 1–20.

Sheikh, Mustapha. Ottoman Puritanism and Its Discontents: Aḥmad Al-Rūmī Al-Āqḥiṣārī and the Qāḍīzādelis. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2016.

Sheikh, Mustapha. “Taymiyyan Taṣawwuf Meets Ottoman Orthodoxy: Reformed Sufism in the Thought of Aḥmad Al‐Rūmī Al‐Āqḥiṣārī.” The Muslim World 108.1 (2018): 186–206 (drawn largely from Sheikh, Ottoman Puritanism, 2016).

Tamer, Georges. "The Curse of Philosophy: Ibn Taymiyya as a Philosopher in Contemporary Islamic Thought." In Times, 329-374.

Terzı̇oğlu, Derin. “Ibn Taymiyya, al-Siyāsa al-Sharʿiyya, and the Early Modern Ottomans.” In Historicizing Sunni Islam in the Ottoman Empire, c. 1450-c. 1750, ed. Tijana Krstić and Derin Terzioğlu, 101–54. Leiden: Brill, 2021. Open access.

Ukeles, Raquel M. “The Sensitive Puritan? Revisiting Ibn Taymiyya’s Approach to Law and Spirituality in Light of 20th-century Debates on the Prophet’s Birthday (mawlid al-nabī).” In Times, 319-337.

Zouggar, Nadjet. “Ibn Taymiyya on the Proofs of Prophecy and His Legacy: Ibn Qayyim Al‐Jawziyya (d. 751/1350) and Ibn Al‐Wazīr (d. 840/1436).” The Muslim World 108.1 (2018): 172–185.