Though he lived seven centuries ago, medieval Syrian scholar, Ibn Taymiyyah, has had an enduring legacy. Indeed, Ibn Taymiyyah’s work is consistently invoked in modern academic and non-academic literature, as an explanation for the rise of Wahhabism, militant Islam, and “religiously motivated” acts of violence. Explanations of this nature are generally quite simplistic, but this […]

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