About
The Book
As talks
of the Islamic system, the Islamic Shariah, and the Islamic State, are
reverberating throughout the Muslim World today, this book has now acquired a
special relevance, because it deals principally with these very themes. Ibn
Taymiyah is one of the very few original and distinguished political thinkers
in Islam. In this book, his achievements have been evaluated in this field and
his real contributions to Islamic political thought.
This
book is perhaps the first attempt at presenting a systematic and objective
study of the political philosophy of Ibn Taymiyah one of the greatest original
thinkers. The work is very carefully documented from original Arabic sources
and hardly a proposition has been made in it without a reliable authority being
cited as its basis.
About
Sheikh ul Islam Ibn Taymiyah
Shaykh al-Islam Taqi ud-Din
Abu'l-Abbas Ahmad Ibn al-Halim ibn Abd al-Salam Ibn Taymiyah al-Hanbali was
born in , 661 AH (1263 AC) in Haran, which is now in Eastern Turkey, near the
border of northern Iraq. His family had long been renowned for its learning ,
among his teachers, was Shams ud-Din Al-Maqdisi, first Hanbali Chief Justice of
Syria following the reform of the judiciary by Baibars. The number of Ibn
Taimiyah's teachers exceeds two hundred.
Ibn
Taimiyah was barely seventeen, when Qadi Al-Maqdisi authorized him to issue
Fatwa (legal verdict). Qadi remembered with pride that it was he who had first
permitted an intelligent and learned man like Ibn Taimiyah to give Fatwa. At
the same age, he started delivering lectures. When he was thirty, he was
offered the office of Chief Justice, but refused, as he could not persuade
himself to follow the limitations imposed by the authorities.
Imam Ibn
Taimiyah's education was essentially that of a Hanbali theologian and
jurisconsult. But to his knowledge of early and classical Hanbalism, he added
not only that of the other schools of jurisprudence but also that of other
literature.
He had
an extensive knowledge of Quran, Sunnah, Greek philosophy, Islamic history, and religious books of others, as is evident from the
variety of the books he wrote.
*Political thought of Ibn Taymiyya*
PhD
THESIS : UMSALAMA MUHAMMAD SALIH
