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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 ...
[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 ...
It is written in response to an incident in which Ibn Taymiyyah heard a Christian insulting the Islamic prophet Muhammad [1] [2] in 1294. [3] In 1293 Ibn Taymiyyah was asked by the authorities to issue a fatwa (legal verdict) on Assaf al-Nasrani, a Christian cleric accused of insulting Muhammad.
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 .
Al-Aqidah Al-Waasitiyyah (Arabic: العقيدة الواسطية) is a book of Islamic creed written by the Hanbali jurist Taqi al-Din ibn Taymiyyah in the year 1297 CE. It is considered relatively easy to understand compared to Ibn Taymiyyah's other works on creed. [1] [2] Ibn Taymiyyah explained his purpose for writing it as follows: