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'''Ibn Taymiyya''' (1263-1328) was an Islamic theologian and scholar of the [[Qur'an]] and Hadith who was influential in promoting literalism in [[Islam]], and curtailing the spread of [[philosophy]] in the Islamic world. | '''Ibn Taymiyya''' (1263-1328) was an Islamic theologian and scholar of the [[Qur'an]] and Hadith who was influential in promoting literalism in [[Islam]], and curtailing the spread of [[philosophy]] in the Islamic world. | ||
==Life== | |||
Ibn Taymiyyah was famous for both refusing to have a female companion at any point in his life and refusing to work for the government.<ref>Al-Matroudi, Abdul Hakim Ibrahim (2015-02-14). "Ibn Taymīyah, Taqī al-Dīn". ''Oxford Islamic Studies Online''. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on October 18, 2017. Retrieved February 14, 2015.</ref> He spent most of his life working as a religious scholar and political activist, and as a result of his nonalignment with both the popular religious and political orders of his time, was imprisoned on six separate occasions during his life.<ref>An-Na`im, Abdullahi Ahmed (2010). ''Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Futnture of Shari'a''. Harvard University Press. p. 76. ISBN <bdi>978-0-674-03456-3</bdi>.</ref> | |||
==Views== | ==Views== | ||
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Probably his most famous [[fatwa]] was issued against the Mongols, when he declared that jihad upon the Mongols was not only permissible, but obligatory, on the grounds that the Mongols could not be true Muslims despite the fact that they had converted to Sunni Islam because they ruled using 'man-made laws' (their traditional Yassa code) rather than [[Islamic Law|Islamic law]] or [[Shariah|Shari'ah]], and thus were living in a state of jahiliyya, or pre-Islamic pagan ignorance. | Probably his most famous [[fatwa]] was issued against the Mongols, when he declared that jihad upon the Mongols was not only permissible, but obligatory, on the grounds that the Mongols could not be true Muslims despite the fact that they had converted to Sunni Islam because they ruled using 'man-made laws' (their traditional Yassa code) rather than [[Islamic Law|Islamic law]] or [[Shariah|Shari'ah]], and thus were living in a state of jahiliyya, or pre-Islamic pagan ignorance. | ||
==See Also== | ==See Also== | ||