Ibn Taymiyya

Author: Jon Hoover

Book length: 176 pages

Excerpt: Ibn Taymiyya does not deny nor affirm explicitly that God is corporeal or spatial, but acknowledges that anything existing outside the mind must be accessible to the human senses, and God is no exception.

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3 questions
1. What was Ibn Taymiyya’s position regarding jihad against the Mongols according to the supplied text?
2. How did Ibn Taymiyya treat the question of God’s corporeality (tajsīm) as described in the notes?
3. What view did Ibn Taymiyya hold concerning prophetic infallibility (ʿismah) and related reports like the Satanic Verses?

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