Aḥmad ibn `Abd al-Ḥalim ibn `Abd al-Salam =

= Taqī al-Dīn Aḥmad Ibn Taymiyya (671-728 AH = 1263-1328 CE)

A prolific Hanbalī jurist and controversialist born in Harran in 661/1263, Ibn Taymiyya remains highly influential today due, in part, to his adoption by the Wahhābīs and other modern Sunnī movements opposed to alleged forms of bid`a ("innovation") and aspects of modernity.

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Ibn Taymiyya (d.728 /1328)

الجواب الصحيح لمن بدل دين المسيح

al-Jawāb al-Ṣaḥīḥ li-man baddala dīn al-Masīḥ

("The Sound Answer to whomsoever has replaced the Religion of Christ [with One of their own Making]").

A massive, perhaps over  1,000 page rebuttal of a 25 page early 12th cent. letter of  the Melkite Bishop of Sidon Paul of Antioch (12th cent.). It is a polemical response to an alleged anti-Islamic Christian text and other manifestations of Islamic kufr  ("infidelity"). There are harsh denunciations of Jewish and Christian heresy and of the veracity of Biblical books which Ibn Taymiyya deems subjected to ancient tabdil ("change") and tahrif ("corruption").

  • al-Jawāb al-ṣaḥīḥ li-man baddala dīn al-Masīḥ. Cairo : Maṭbaʻat al-Nīl, 1322-3/1905.

  • al-Jawab al-Ṣaḥīḥ li man baddala dīn al-Masīḥ. [Cairo]: Maṭbaʻat al-Nīl. 4 vols in 2 . Cairo: 1322/1905.

  • al-Jawāb al-ṣaḥīḥ. XXX:XXX., ADD XXX/1959.

  • al-Jawāb al-ṣaḥīḥ li-man baddala dīn al-Masīḥ. Jiddah: Maktabat al-Madanī, XXXX/197-. ADD

  • al-Jawāb al-ṣaḥīḥ li-man baddala dīn al-Masīḥ, 4 vols. in 2 : Maṭābi` al-Majd al-Tijāriyya, c. 197?. ‬

  • al-Jawāb al-ṣaḥīḥ li-man baddala dīn al-Masīḥ / li-Shaykh al-Islām Aḥmad ibn Taymīyah; taḥqīq Majdī Qāsim.  4 vols. Jiddah : Tawzī` Maktabat al-Balad al-Amīn, 1414/1993.

  • ‬ al-Jawāb al-ṣaḥīḥ li-man baddala dīn al-Masīḥ / li-Shaykh al-Islām Aḥmad ibn Taymīyah; eds.  `Ali ibn Hasan ibn Nasir; `Abd al-`Aziz ibn Ibrahim al-`Askar; Ḥamdān ibn Muhammad Ḥamdān.  6 vols. + 1 index vol. Riyad : Dār al-`Āṣima, 1419/1999. *

  • URL: http://arabic.islamicweb.com/Books/taimiya.asp?book=330

  • A Muslim Theologian's Response to Christianity, Ibn Taymiyya's al-Jawab al-Sahih, edited and translated by Thomas F. Mitchel., S. J. Delmar, New York: Caravan Books, 1984. (465pp.). *

  • Muslim Theologian's Response to Christianity: Ibn Taymiyya's Al-Jawab Al-Sahih 

 

  • Answering Those who Altered the Religion of Jesus. Translated by Bayan Translation Service. [al-Mansura, Egypt] Umm al-Qura : 362pp. ISBN: 9775990734. "Abridged by Ash-Shhhat Aḥmad At-Tahhan Rendered into English By Bayan Translation Services Asmaa Abdel & Mona Gamal Editor Selma Cook HB, 362 Pages Published by Umm Al-Qura, Al-Mansura, Egypt Through this (The Un-Abridged Arabic Version) Book shaikhul-Islam Ibn Taimiyah responds to a letter from Cyprus from 'Paul, The Monk; the Bishop of Sayda', The letter was entitled 'The Logically proven statement that expresses the right conviction and sound opinion'"

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  • `Reopening the Muslim-Christian Dialogue of the 13-14th Centuries: Critical Reflections on Ibn Taymiyyah's Response to Christianity in Al-Jawab al-Sahih li man baddala din al-Masih by N N Roberts.   in  Muslim World  86, no. 3/4, (1996): 342-366, 

  • Muslim views of Christianity in the Middle Ages an analytical study of Ibn Taymīyah's work on Christianity : a thesis by Muzammil Husain Siddiqi.  Thesis/dissertation : Microfilm;  Cambridge, Mass. : Siddiqi, 1978.

 al-Iqtiḍā' al-ṣirāt al-mustaqīm...  (written 721/1321):

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  • Iqtiḍā' al-ṣirāt al-mustaqīm mukhālafat aṣḥāb al-jaḥīm.  [Cairo?]: Matabi` al-Majd al-Tujariyya, 480pp. *

  • Kitāb Iqtiḍā' aṣ-ṣirāt al-mustaqīm mukhālafat aṣḥāb al-jaḥīm. ed. `Asam al-Din Sayyid al-Ṣaba'iti. Cairo: Dar al-HXXXX.  1412/1992 (ADD pp.).

  • Iqtiḍāʼ al-ṣirāṭ al-mustaqīm : mukhālafat aṣḥāb al-jaḥīm.  Beirut‬ : Dār al-Fikr lil-Ṭibāʻa  wa'l-Nashr wa'l-Tawzīʻ, 198?. 480pp. ‬

  • Iqtiḍāʼ al-ṣirāṭ al-mustaqīm : li-mukhālafat aṣḥāb al-jaḥīm  2 vols. ed. Nāṣir ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm al-ʻAql. al-Riyāḍ : Dār al-ʻĀṣimah, 1419/ ‬1998. ‬

  • Iqtidāʼ al-Ṣirāṭ al-Mustaqīm : Mukhālafat Aṣḥāb al-Jaḥīm ed.  Muḥammad Ḥāmid al-Fiqī. Beirut: Dār al-Maʻrifah, ‬198?. 482pp.‬

  • Iqtiḍāʼ al-ṣirāṭ al-mustaqīm fī mukh̲ālafat aṣḥāb al-jaḥīm, ed. Muḥammad Ḥāmid al- Fiqī; Muḥammad Kurd ʻAlī; Ayman Ṣāliḥ Šaʻbān. Cairo : al-Maktaba al-Tawfīqiyya, c. XXXX/2000.

  • Iqtiḍā' al-ṣirāt al-mustaqīm, ed. ?? ADD. Cairo: Dar Ibn Hawzi, 1423/2002. 640pp. *

  • Iqtiḍā' al-ṣirāt al-mustaqīm mukhālafat aṣḥāb al-jaḥīm, ed.  Khalid `Abd al-Latif al-Sab` al-`Alami. Beirut: Dar al-Kitab al-`Arabi, 1425/2005. 400pp. *

  • Ibn Taimaya's Struggle Against Popular Religion With an Annotated Translation of His Kitāb Iqtiḍā' aṣ-ṣirāt al-mustaqīm mukhālafat aṣḥāb al-jaḥīm by Muhammed U. Memon.  Mouton, The Hague-Paris:  De Gruyter, 1976.  ISBN = 9027975914.  *

 

 

Kitāb al-asmāʼ wa-al-ṣifāt

  • Kitāb al-asmā' wa-al-ṣifāt. ed.  Muṣṭafá `Abd al-Qādir `Aṭā. Beirut: Dār al-Kutub al-`Ilmīyah, 1408/ ‬1988.‬

  • Kitāb al-asmā' wa-al-ṣifāt. ed.  Muṣṭafá `Abd al-Qādir `Aṭā. 2 vols. Beirut: Dār al-Kutub al-`Ilmīyah, 1418/ ‬1988. 327+595pp.‬  *

  • Bayhaqī, Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn (994-1066).

  • Kitāb al-asmā' wa-al-ṣifāt / lil-Bayhaqī. Published Bayrūt : Dār al-Kutub al-`Ilmīyah, ‪1984. 664 pp. 

  • Nafā'is. ed. Muḥammad Ḥāmid Fiqī. ‬Cairo‬ : Maṭba`at al-Sunnah al-Muḥammadīyah, c.1955. 360 pp. Contents = 1. al-Risālah al-tadmīrīyah / li-ibn Taymīyah -- 2. al-Fatwá al-ḥimawīyah al-kubrá / li-ibn Taymīyah -- 3. Alfiyat muṣṭaliḥ al-Ḥadīth / Zayn al-Dīn `Abd al-Raḥīm al-`Irāqī -- 4.`Umdat al-Aḥkām min kalām Khayr al-anām / `Abd al-Ghanī al-Maqdassī al-Jamā`īlī.

  • al-Risālah al-Tadmurīyah fī taḥqīq al-ithbāt li-asmāʼ Allāh wa-ṣifātuh wa-bayān ḥaqīqat al-jamʻ bayna al-sharʻ wa-al-qadar Cairo : Qaṣī Muḥib al-Dīn al-Khaṭīb ; al-Maṭbaʿah al-Salafīyah, 1405/‬1984. 68pp.

  • al-Risālah al-tadmurīyah : mujmal iʻtiqād al-salaf  ed. Zuhayr al-Shāwīsh. Beirut: al-Maktab al-Islāmī, 1408/1988. ‬150 pp. 

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Kitāb al-nubuwwāt,

  • Kitāb al-Nubūwāt Cairo : Idārat al-Ṭibāʻa al-Munīriyya, 1346/1927-8.

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  • Kitāb al-nubuwwāt,

  • Kitāb al-nubuwwāt, lil-Imām Taqī al-Dīn Abī ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn Taymīyah. Beirut: Dār al-Kutub al-`Ilmīyah, 1993. 

  • Kitāb al-nubuwwāt, lil-Imām Taqī al-Dīn Abī ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn Taymīyah.Beirut: Dār al-Qalam, n.d. [c.1983] 454pp.*

  • al-Nubuwwāt. lil-Imām Taqī al-Dīn Abī `Abbās Aḥmad ibn Taymīyah ; ed. Muḥammad `Abd al-Raḥmān `Awaḍ. Miṣr : Dār al-Rayān lil-Turāth, 1405 / ‬1985. 452 pp.

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  • Kitāb minhāj al-sunnah al-Nabawīyah fī naqḍ kalām al-Shīʻah wa-al-Qadarīyah wa-bihamishihi al-kitāb al-musammā Bayān muwafaqat ṣarīh al-maʻqūl li-ṣaḥīh al-manqūl, lil-muʼallif al-madhkūr. 4 vols in 2. Beirut : Dār al-Kitub al-ʿIlmīyah,  XXXX/197?

  • al-Furqān bayna awliyā' al-Raḥman wa awliyā' al-shayṭān. Cairo 1322/1904.  A denunciation of Sufi extremism and the cult of the saints...

  • Minhaj al-Sunnah al-Nabawiyyah fi naqdi kalam al-shi`a al-qadariyya (The Pathway of the Sunnah al-Nabawiyyah). ed.  Dr. Mohammad Rashad Salem 4 vols. 2808pp. Dar al-fadilah, K. S. A. Distributed by: Mo'assasat Al-rayyan, Beirut, Lebanon.

  • Al-Mukhtarat al-Salafiah min shuruh al-`aqidat al-wasitiah. ed. Moustafa Ameen Atta Allah 3 Vols. 1655pp, Dar ul Baseerah, Egypt., 2008 (?).

al-Tawba

  • al-Tawba.  al-Riyāḍ : Dār al-Qāsim li-al-Našr wa-al-Tawzīʻ, 1420/1999. ISBN: 9960331326 9789960331324

 

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  • Muslims under non-Muslim Rule Ibn Taymiyya By Professor Yahya Michot Foreword by James Piscatori Paperback 190 Pages 0 9554545 0 6. Interface Publications, Oxford UK

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  • The Goodly Word. Bilingual Edition, 2003. 368pp. Islamic Texts Society.  ISBN-10: 1903682150 ISBN-13: 9781903682159

  • Muslims Under Non-Muslim Rule. Ibn Taymiyya Yahya Michot,

  • Profession De Foi D'Ibn Taymiyya: Texte, Traduction Et Commentaire De La Wasitiyya Laoust & Ibn Taymiyah,

  • Culte Des Saints Et Pelerinages Chez Ibn Taymiyya: 661/1263-728/1328 Olesen,

  • Musique Et Danse Selon Ibn Taymiyya: Le Livre Du Sama Et De La Danse (Kitab Al-Sama Wa L-Raqs) Michot,

  • Islamisches Recht in Theorie Und Praxis: Analyse Einiger Kaufrechtlicher Fatwas Von Taqi'd-Din Aḥmad B. Taymiyya Jokisch,

  • IBN Taymiyya. Lettre `AbiL-Fida'. Traduction de L'arabe, Presentation, Notes Et Lexique

Michot, Jean R.

  •  Lettre à Abû l-Fidâʼ / Ibn Taymiyya ; traduction de l'arabe, présentation, notes et lexique par Jean R. Michot. Louvain-la-Neuve : Université catholique de Louvain, Institut orientaliste, 1994. (In Series = Publications de l'Institut orientaliste de Louvain ; 44 ).  ISBN 9068315854 9789068315851.

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  • Lettre à un roi croisé = al-Risâlat al-Qubrusiyya : traduction de l'arabe, introduction, notes et lexique par Jean R. Michot. Louvain-la-Neuve : Bruylant-Academia ; Lyon : Tawhid, 1995.349 pp.  (= Series Sagesses musulmanes ; 2). 

Kitāb Muqaddimat al-Tafsīr

  • Kitāb Muqaddimat al-Tafsīr in Majmu` Fatāwa Shaykh al-Islām Imām Aḥmad ibn Taymiyya, vol. 13  n.p. ([Cairo ?]: 1398/1978), pp. 5-229.*

  • Int. Tafsir `Introductory Treatise on the Principles of Tafsir’,  trans. McAuliffe, Jane, D. in J. Renard ed. 1998. *

 

Collected works and other writings of Ibn Taymiyya.

  • Majmū` al-Rasā'il. Cairo: al-Matba`a al-Husayniyya al-Misriyya, 1323/1905.

  • Majmū`āt al-Fatawa al-Kubra, 5 vols. Cairo: Matba`at al-Kurdistan al-`Ilmiyya, 1329/1911.

  • Majmū`āt al-Fatawa al-Kubra, 5 vols. Cairo: Dar al-Kutub al-Haditha, 1384/1965.

  • al-Fatāwā al-Kubrā / ta̕ālīf Shaykh al-Islām Abī al-`Abbās Taqī al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn `Abd al-Ḥalīm al-Shahīr bi-Ibn Taymīyah ; qaddama la-hu wa `arrafa bi-hi Ḥasanayn Muḥammad Makhlūf. 5 vols. Beirut : Dār al-Ma`rifah, ]‬

  • Majmū` Fatawa Shaykh al-Islam Aḥmad ibn Taymiyya, 35 vols. Riyad : Matba`at al-Ḥukama , 1386/1966.

  • Majmū` Fatawa Shaykh al-Islam Aḥmad ibn Taymiyya, 35 vols. Riyad : Matba`at al-Ḥukama , 1386/1966.

  • Majmūʻ fatāwá Shaykh al-Islām Aḥmad ibn Ṭaymīyah / jamʻ wa-tartīb ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Qāsim al-ʻĀṣimī al-Najdī al-Ḥanbalī, wa-sāʻadahu ibnuhu Muḥammad. 1398/ ‬1977-8.  37 vols. ‬Beirut : Maṭābiʻ Dār al-ʻArabīyah = rep. al-Riyāḍ, 1381-1386/ ‬1961-1966. Vols. 6-10 printed by: Muʼassasat al-Risālah lil-Ṭibāʻah wa-al-Nashr.

  • al-Fatāwá al-kubrá ed. Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Qādir ʻAṭā, Muṣṭafá ʻAbd al-Qādir ʻAṭā. 6 vols. Beirut : Dar al-Kutub al-ʻIlmīyah, c. 1990? ‬ =  1. Kitāb al-Sunnah wa-al-bidʻah. Kitāb al-Ṭahārah -- 2. Kitāb al-Ṣalāh. Kitāb al-Dhikr wa-al-duʻāʼ. Kitāb al-Ṣiyām -- 3. Kitāb al-Janāʼiz. Kitāb al-Nikāḥ. Kitāb al-Ṭalāq. Kitāb al-Nafaqāt. Kitāb al-Ḥudūd. Kitāb al-Jihād --   4. Kitāb al-Buyūʻ. Kitāb al-Shahādah wa-al-aqḍiyah wa-al-amwāl. Kitāb al-Waqf. Kitāb al-Waṣāyā. Kitāb al-Farāʼid. Kitāb al-Faḍāʼil. Kitāb al-Malāhī --  5. Kitāb Masāʼil manthūrah. Kitāb al-Ikhtiyārāt al-ʻilmīyah --  6. Kitāb Iqāmāt al-dalīl ʻalá abṭāl al-taḥlīl. Kitāb fī al-radd ʻalá al-ṭawāʼif al-mulḥidah wa-al-zanādiqah wa-al-Jahmīyah wa-al-Muʻtazilah wa-al-Rāfiḍah.

  • Majmū` Fatawa Shaykh al-Islam Aḥmad ibn Taymiyya, ed. `Abd al-Rahman Muhammad ibn Qāsim and his son Muhammad. Printed at the command of the Khādim of al-Ḥaramayn,  Rabat: Maktab al-Ma`ārif  vol. 3 (= Kitab Majmal Iqtiqād al-Salaf), n. d. 471pp. *

  • Majmū` Fatawa Shaykh al-Islam Aḥmad ibn Taymiyya, ed. `Abd al-Rahman Muhammad ibn Qasimand his son Muhammad.. Printed at the command of the Khādim of al-Ḥaramayn,  Rabat: Maktab al-Ma`ārif  vol. 4 (= Kitab Mufassal al-Iqtiḍād), n. d. 581pp.  *

  • al-Mustadrak `alá Majmū` fatāwá Shaykh al-Islām Aḥmad ibn Taymīyah / jam` wa-tartīb Muḥammad ibn `Abd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Qāsim. 5 vols. [Saudi Arabia], 1418/1998.

  • al-ʻAqīdah al-wāsiṭīyah : maʻa ʻaqīdah al-salaf / Ibn Taymīyah ; yaqaddamuhā Muṣṭafá al-ʻĀlam.
    Dimishq : Maṭbūʻāt Dār al-Thaqāfah lil-Ṭibāʻah wa-al-Nashr, 1385/ 1965. 112pp.‬

  • Sharḥ al-`Aqīdah al-wāsiṭīyah li-shaykh al-Islām Aḥmad ibn `Abd al-Ḥalīm ibn `Abd al-Salām Ibn Taymīyah / ta'līf Muḥammad Khalīl Harrās ; ḍabṭ naṣsahu wa kharaja aḥādīthahu `Alawī ibn `Abd al-Qādir al-Saqqāf. Wa-yalīh, Mulḥaq al-Wāsiṭīyah. al-Riyāḍ : Dar al-Hijrah lil-Nashr wa-al-Tawzī`, 1415/1995.  ‬ 359pp.

  • Sharḥ al-`Aqīdah al-wāsiṭīyah li-shaykh al-Islām Aḥmad ibn Taymīyah / ta'līf Salih ibn Fawzān ibn `Abd-Allāh al-Fawzān...  al-Riyāḍ : al-Maktab`ah al-Ma`ārif lil-Nashr wa'l-Tawzī`, 1419/1999.  217pp. *

  • al-Waṣīyah al-kubrá fī al-`aqīdah wa'-al-daʻwah lil-Muslimīn : jamāʻāt wa-afrādan. taḥqīq wa-ta`līq `Alī Ḥasan `Alī `Abd al-Ḥamīd. Published `Ammān, al-Urdun : Dār `Ammar, 1407/1986. 95pp.

  • al-Wasṭīyah / li-Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymīyah ; al-jam` wa-al-tartīb wa-al-`ināyah li-Abī al-Faḍl `Abd al-Salām ibn Muḥammad ibn `Abd al-Karīm. Cairo : Dār al-Futūḥ al-Islāmīyah, 1416 /1995. 134pp.‬ ‬

  • al-Akhbār al-`ilmīyah min al-Ikhtiyārāt al-fiqhīyah li-Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymīyah / ta'līf `Alā' al-Dīn Abī al-Ḥasan `Alī ibn Muḥammad ibn `Abbās al-Ba`lī al-Dimashqī al-Ḥanbalī ; wa-ma`ahu ta`līqāt wa-taṣḥīḥāt Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ al-`Uthaymīn ; ḥaqqaqahu wa-kharraja aḥādīthahu Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan al-Khalīl. al-Riyāḍ : Dār al-`Āṣima, 1418/‬1998.‬  543pp.

 

 

 

 

 

Abrahamov, Binyamin.

  • "Ibn Taymiyya on the Agreement of Reason with Tradition." The Muslim World 82, no. 3-4 (1992). 256-272.

 

Bell, Joseph Norment

  • Love Theory in Later Hanbalite Islam. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1979.

 

Laoust, Henri.

  • Essai sur les doctrines sociales et politiques de Taki-d-Din Aḥmad b. Taimiya. le Caire: Imprimerie de l'institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1939.

  • La Profession de foi d'Ibn Taymiyya- La Wasitiyya. Paris: Geuthner, 1986.

Michot, J.R. :

  • (1994) Lettre à Abû l-Fidâ. Louvain-la-Neuve, Institut Orientaliste, Iniversité Catholique de Louvain.

  • (1995). Lettre a un roi croisé : (al-Risâlat al-Qubru*siyya). Louvain-la-Neuve, Bruylant-Academia.

  • Un Dieu hésitant? Beyrouth: Albouraq.

 

Bewley, A 

  • The Madinan Way : the soundness of the basic premises of the School of the People of Madina. Norwich, Bookwork. 2000.

 

Haddad, Dr Gibril (trans.)

  • The Refutation of him [Ibn Taymiyya] who attributes direction to Allah Al Raddu ala Man Qala bil Jiha Qadi Ibn Jahbal Al- Kilabi Translation and Notes : Dr Gibril Haddad; Shaykh Introduction By Shaykh Wahbi Sulayman al-Ghawji Hbk 352 pp. Aqsa Publications, 2008. 0954754085. 

  • "This short theological tract, Fi Nafi al-Jiha, or On Denying Direction to God, by the Ashari theologian and celebrated Shafi’i jurist, Qadi Ibn Jahbal (d. 733/1333), is a clinical rebuttal of the controversial fatwa, the Aqida Hamawiyya, penned by his legendary contemporary, Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728/1328). It is considered, rightly, a classic manifesto of anti-literalism, which will be an indispensable reference for advanced students of Islamic theology, other professional theologians, and modern academics needing primary source materials in English or a source book on the controversies surrounding Ibn Taymiyya’s theology." Muhammad Afifi al-Akiti Research Fellow in Islamic Theology, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Oxford University

 

Hallaq, Wael b.

  • Ibn Taymiyya Against the Greek Logicians Translated with an introduction and notes by Wael B. Hallaq ISBN-13: 978-0-19-824043-3. Clarendon Press & Oxford University Press, Oxford UK 1993, 262 pp.

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Hoover, J.

  • Ibn Taymiyya's theodicy of perpetual optimism. Leiden, Brill.2007.

 

Morabia, Alfred.

  • 'Ibn Taymiyya, Les Juifs et la Tora' in Studia Islamica  No. 49 (1979), 91-122.

 

Stern,  J. M.

  • 'The Oxford Manuscript of Ibn Taymiyya's anti-Christian polemics' in BSOAS 22 (1959), 124-128.