Jon Hoover is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Nottingham. He specialises in Islamic intellectual history, medieval Islamic theology and philosophy, Christian¿Muslim relations, and the thought of Ibn Taymiyya. He is the author of Ibn Taymiyyäs Theodicy of Perpetual Optimism, and numerous articles and book chapters on Ibn Taymiyyäs theology and ethics.
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INTRODUCTION 1 EARLY CAREER AND THE MONGOL INVASIONS The Formative Years Appearance, Character, and Personal Relationships Early Engagements with Religious Law Early Engagements with Theology The Mongol Invasion of 1299 1300 The Mongol Invasions of 1300 1301 and 1303 Christians in the Wake of the Mongols 2 LATER CAREER AND MAJOR TRIALS Conflicts with Sufis The 1306 Damascus Trials over Theology Imprisonments in Egypt over Theology and Sufism 1306 1310 Final Years in Egypt 1310 1313 Back in Damascus Teaching and Writing The 1318 Nusayri Revolt Trials over Divorce Oaths Final Imprisonment over Grave Visitation 1326 1328 3 THE PRIORITY OF WORSHIP Worship and the Human Natural Constitution A Spirituality of Love Divinity and Lordship Command and Creation Sainthood 4 WORSHIP, LAW, AND INNOVATION Worship and the Law Worship Rituals: Lawful and Innovated Spiritual Concert and Annihilation Benefit and the Law Innovated Festivals and the Prophet s Birthday Grave Visitation and Intercession Ibn Taymiyya and Sufism 5 JURISTIC AUTHORITY AND DERIVING GOD S LAW The Sunni Law School System Back to the Qur an and the Sunna Forbidding Chess Invalidating Triple Divorce 6 UTILITARIAN SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ETHICS Social Ethics The Caliphate Public Authority and the Law Law-Guided Public Policy Trusts of public office and public wealth Justice: the limits and rights of God and humans Jihad 7 GOD AND CREATION Kalam Theology Esotericism Non-cognitivism Apologetic Interpretativism God is Sitting Over the Throne The Timelessly Eternal God of Philosophy and Kalam God Wills for Wise Purposes and Creates from Eternity 8 GOD AND HUMANITY Justice, Evil, and the Human Act God s Protection of Prophets The Signs of a True Prophet Christianity: An Object Lesson in Innovated Religion The Ultimate Destiny of Unbelievers 9 EPILOGUE Bibliography Index
INTRODUCTION 1 EARLY CAREER AND THE MONGOL INVASIONS The Formative Years Appearance, Character, and Personal Relationships Early Engagements with Religious Law Early Engagements with Theology The Mongol Invasion of 1299 1300 The Mongol Invasions of 1300 1301 and 1303 Christians in the Wake of the Mongols 2 LATER CAREER AND MAJOR TRIALS Conflicts with Sufis The 1306 Damascus Trials over Theology Imprisonments in Egypt over Theology and Sufism 1306 1310 Final Years in Egypt 1310 1313 Back in Damascus Teaching and Writing The 1318 Nusayri Revolt Trials over Divorce Oaths Final Imprisonment over Grave Visitation 1326 1328 3 THE PRIORITY OF WORSHIP Worship and the Human Natural Constitution A Spirituality of Love Divinity and Lordship Command and Creation Sainthood 4 WORSHIP, LAW, AND INNOVATION Worship and the Law Worship Rituals: Lawful and Innovated Spiritual Concert and Annihilation Benefit and the Law Innovated Festivals and the Prophet s Birthday Grave Visitation and Intercession Ibn Taymiyya and Sufism 5 JURISTIC AUTHORITY AND DERIVING GOD S LAW The Sunni Law School System Back to the Qur an and the Sunna Forbidding Chess Invalidating Triple Divorce 6 UTILITARIAN SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ETHICS Social Ethics The Caliphate Public Authority and the Law Law-Guided Public Policy Trusts of public office and public wealth Justice: the limits and rights of God and humans Jihad 7 GOD AND CREATION Kalam Theology Esotericism Non-cognitivism Apologetic Interpretativism God is Sitting Over the Throne The Timelessly Eternal God of Philosophy and Kalam God Wills for Wise Purposes and Creates from Eternity 8 GOD AND HUMANITY Justice, Evil, and the Human Act God s Protection of Prophets The Signs of a True Prophet Christianity: An Object Lesson in Innovated Religion The Ultimate Destiny of Unbelievers 9 EPILOGUE Bibliography Index
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