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A new source for the biography of Ibn Taymiyya

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2004

CATERINA BORI
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Abstract

The student who approaches the study of the turbulent life of Ibn Taymiyya will soon realize that Shams al-Dīn al-Dhahabī, his renowned shāfi‘ī disciple, is indeed one of the main sources for the Hanbalī scholar's biographers. Al-Dhahabī wrote many biographical notices of Ibn Taymiyya and one of these has been identified with the manuscript source presented in this article. The article briefly introduces the source, discusses its content and its importance in relation to the early biographies of Ibn Taymiyya as is evident from the text, and raises some questions about the state of consensus towards the Hanbalī jurist among his traditionalist Damascene fellows. An edition and annotated translation of the Arabic text are appended to the introduction.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 67 , Issue 3 , October 2004 , pp. 321 - 348
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© School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 2004

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Footnotes

The paper draws on parts of a research project carried out for a PhD dissertation (1998–2001) at the University of Rome, ‘La Sapienza’: Una lettura del personaggio Ibn Taymiyya: analisi delle fonti classiche della sua biografia. My acknowledgements go to Professor Walīd al-Hāfiz for kindly revising the Arabic text and to Dr Roberto Tottoli for reading a first draft of the article and commenting upon it.