PHILOSOPHER

Ibn Taymiyyah

1263 - 1328

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Ibn Taymiyya (Arabic: ٱبْن تَيْمِيَّة; 22 January 1263 – 26 September 1328) was a Sunni Muslim scholar, jurist, traditionist, Sufi, Qadiri, proto-Salafi theologian and iconoclast. He is known for his diplomatic involvement with the Ilkhanid ruler Ghazan Khan at the Battle of Marj al-Saffar, which ended the Mongol invasions of the Levant. A legal jurist of the Hanbali school, Ibn Taymiyya's condemnation of numerous Sufi practices associated with saint veneration and visitation of tombs made him a controversial figure with many rulers and scholars of the time, which caused him to be imprisoned several times as a result. A polarizing figure in his own times and the centuries that followed, Ibn Taymiyya has emerged as one of the most influential medieval scholars in late modern Sunni Islam. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ibn Taymiyyah is the 119th most popular philosopher (down from 90th in 2019), the 92nd most popular biography from Türkiye (down from 65th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Turkish Philosopher.

Ibn Taymiyyah is most famous for his belief that Muslims should not live under non-Muslim rule. He also believed that the Muslim world should be united under one caliphate.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Ibn Taymiyyah ranks 119 out of 1,267. Before him are John Scotus Eriugena, Gilles Deleuze, Meister Eckhart, Padmasambhava, Tertullian, and William of Ockham. After him are Bonaventure, Henri de Saint-Simon, Emmanuel Levinas, Ramon Llull, Willard Van Orman Quine, and Hans-Georg Gadamer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1263, Ibn Taymiyyah ranks 1. After him are Isabella of Villehardouin, Yolande of Dreux, Queen of Scotland, Theobald II, Duke of Lorraine, and David VIII of Georgia. Among people deceased in 1328, Ibn Taymiyyah ranks 3. Before him are Charles IV of France, and Meister Eckhart. After him are Clementia of Hungary, Yesün Temür, Ragibagh Khan, Isabella of Castile, Queen of Aragon, John of Montecorvino, Galeazzo I Visconti, Charles, Duke of Calabria, Prince Hisaaki, and Castruccio Castracani.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Ibn Taymiyyah ranks 92 out of 1,347. Before him are Pedanius Dioscorides (40), Michael VIII Palaiologos (1224), Theodosius II (401), Abdulmejid II (1868), Constantine VII (905), and Nestorius (381). After him are Eudoxus of Cnidus (-408), Leontios (660), Anacreon (-570), Theodosius III (700), Theodore II Laskaris (1221), and Herostratus (-301).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Türkiye

Among philosophers born in Türkiye, Ibn Taymiyyah ranks 10. Before him are Anaximander (-610), Anaxagoras (-500), Epictetus (50), Xenophanes (-570), Leucippus (-500), and Gregory of Nazianzus (329). After him are Anaximenes of Miletus (-585), Chrysippus (-281), Proclus (412), Posidonius (-135), Gemistus Pletho (1355), and Apollonius of Tyana (15).

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