Ibn Taymiyya and the Attributes of God

by Farid Suleiman, Carl Sharif El-Tobgui (translator)

In Ibn Taymiyya and the Attributes of God (orig. published in German, 2019), Farid Suleiman pieces together, on the basis of statements scattered unsystematically over numerous individual treatises, an overall picture of the methodological foundations of Ibn Taymiyya's doctrine of the divine attributes. He then examines how Ibn Taymiyya applies these foundational principles as exemplified in his treatment of selected divine attributes. Throughout the book, Suleiman relates Ibn Taymiyya's positions to the larger context of Islamic intellectual history.
The book was awarded the Dissertation Prize 2019 by the Academy for Islam in Research and Society (AIWG) and the Classical Islamic Book Prize by Gorgias Press (2020).

Genres: Islam

402 pages, Hardcover

Published January 17, 2024

Reviews

[Nāfiʿ · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent read. Finally, in long. Should be read along with Carl Sharif’s work and Yunus Ali’s work on linguistic pragmatics as well. And of course, I’ll release my own papers In Sha’ Allah.