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Ibn Taymiyya (Makers of the Muslim World)

Jon Hoover is a scholar of Islamic theology, and this Oneworld book, part of the Makers of the Muslim World series, is his scholarly biographical study of the medieval jurist Ibn Taymiyya, covering his theological positions including his rejection of bidah, unwarranted innovation, and his opposition to seeking intercession at tombs. Its strength is close engagement with Ibn Taymiyya's own extensive writings to present his theology on its own terms and to trace its documented later influence on movements such as Wahhabism. Its limit is that it is a focused scholarly biography of Ibn Taymiyya himself, not a general history of Wahhabism as a later movement, so a claim about Wahhabism's own later development needs a source such as Commins's history of the Wahhabi mission specifically.

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Jon Hoover's scholarly biographical study of the medieval jurist Ibn Taymiyya, part of the Makers of the Muslim World series, covering his theological positions such as the rejection of bidah and opposition to seeking intercession at tombs; a focused scholarly biography, not a general history of Wahhabism itself, which needs a source such as Commins's The Wahhabi Mission.

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Jon Hoover's scholarly biographical study of the medieval jurist Ibn Taymiyya, part of the Makers of the Muslim World series, covering his theological positions such as the rejection of bidah (innovation) and opposition to seeking intercession at tombs. Use for established facts about Ibn Taymiyya's own teaching and its later influence on movements such as Wahhabism; a focused scholarly biography, not a general history of Wahhabism itself, which needs a source such as Commins's The Wahhabi Mission.

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Author

Jon Hoover

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Oneworld

Publication Year

2019

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https://oneworld-publications.com/work/ibn-taymiyya/

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Scholarly work

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Ibn Taymiyya

This source names Ibn Taymiyya directly: "study of the medieval jurist Ibn Taymiyya, covering his theological positions including his rejection of bidah, unwarranted innovation, and his opposition to seeking intercession at tombs."

Source Ibn Taymiyya (Makers of the Muslim World)Jon Hoover

Wahhabism

This source names Wahhabism directly: "later influence on movements such as Wahhabism."

Source Ibn Taymiyya (Makers of the Muslim World)Jon Hoover

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This source backs 67 claims across the atlas. As facts: 33 well-attested, 1 open question. As cited relationships: 10 holds, 5 connected, 2 critiqued Here, 1 rejected Here. Plus 15 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

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Articles, 20 claims: 12 well-attested, 3 connected, 5 general references.
Religious Legal Instruments, 11 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 open question, 3 holds, 1 connected, 1 general references.
Sources, 10 claims: 8 well-attested, 2 holds.
Open Questions, 7 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 connected, 1 general references.
Schools of Religious Law, 5 claims: 2 holds, 2 critiqued Here, 1 general references.
Beliefs & Restrictions, 4 claims: 1 well-attested, 3 general references.
Denominations, 4 claims: 1 holds, 1 rejected Here, 2 general references.
Figures, 4 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
Doctrines, 2 claims: 1 holds, 1 general references.