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A notable example of this is his admiration for Shaykh Abdul Qadir Jilani, a revered Sufi saint. Ibn Taymiyyah praised Shaykh Abdul Qadir Jilani for his adherence to the Sharia (Islamic law) and his deep spirituality, considering him a model of the correct practice of Sufism . Ibn Taymiyyah's writings reflect a balanced approach to Sufism.
The Sheikh-ul-Islam was appointed by the Sultan. His office was known as the Şeyhülislâm Kapısı, or the Bab-ı Meşihat, which during the Tanzimat was housed in the old quarters of the Agha of the Janissaries. The office was quite large, the Sheikh-ul-Islams' rank was checked only by the Grand Vizier or the Serasker.
Shaykh al-Islām (English: Sheikh/Chief of Islamic/Muslim Community; Arabic: شيخ الإسلام, romanized: Šayḫ al-Islām; Persian: شِیخُالاسلام, Sheykh-ol-Eslām; Urdu: شِیخُالاسلام, Sheikh-ul-Islām; Ottoman Turkish: شیخ الاسلام, Turkish: Şeyhülislâm [1]) was used in the classical era as an honorific title for outstanding scholars of the ...
Najm ad-Dīn Abū r-Rabīʿ Sulaymān ibn ʿAbd al-Qawī aṭ-Ṭūfī (Arabic: نجم الدين أبو الربيع سليمان بن عبد القوي الطوفي) was a Hanbali scholar and student of Ibn Taymiyyah. He referred to ibn Taymiyyah as "our sheikh." Most of his scholarship deals with Islamic legal theory and theology. His ...
During this incarceration Ibn Taymiyyah "wrote his first great work, al-Ṣārim al-maslūl ʿalā s̲h̲ātim al-Rasūl (The Drawn Sword against those who insult the Messenger). " Ibn Taymiyyah, together with the help of his disciples, continued with his efforts against what, "he perceived to be un-Islamic practices" and to implement what he ...
Al-Jawāb al-Ṣaḥīḥ li-man baddala dīn al-Masīḥ The work is a detailed refutation of Christian doctrine . [ 1 ] It was occasioned by Ibn Taymiyyah's receipt of a Letter from the People of Cyprus , itself a reworking of an earlier Letter to a Muslim Friend by the Christian bishop Paul of Antioch .
[99] Scholar Arjan Post, in the introduction to the edition and English translation of Risālat al-sulūk (Epistle on the Spiritual Way) by al-Baʿlabakkī (d. 734/1333), a Lebanon-born Hanbali Sufi and direct student of Ibn Taymiyya, talks of a "Sufi circle" among his students, notably through ʿImād al-Dīn Aḥmad al-Wāsiṭī, who ...
Muthīr al-Gharām al-Sākin ilā Ashraf al-Amākin by Ibn al-Jawzi (d. 597 AH) ʿUmdat al-Fiqh by Ibn Qudamah (d. 620 AH) al-Muqniʿ by Ibn Qudamah; Al-Mughnī by Ibn Qudamah; Al-Kaafi by Ibn Qudamah; Kitab al-Furu by Ibn Muflih (d. 763 AH) Zād al-Mustaqniʿ by Al-Hajjawi (d. 968 AH) Dalīl al-Ṭālib by Marʿī bin Yūsuf al-Karmī (d. 1033 AH)