Ibn Taymiyyah on the Oneness of God

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Ibn Taymiyyah on the Oneness of God

This book is the first in an envisioned series of translations from Ibn Taymiyyah's theological works that cover a wide range of topics from the evidence of God's perfection to the signs of Prophethood, and from the meaning of God's creative agency to the compatibility of divine predestination with human moral agency.

The series aims to provide readers from the English-speaking world access to Ibn Taymiyyah's articulations of these important matters of the Faith in an effort to demonstrate the superior rationality embodied in Islamic Faith over the conflicting claims of rationality offered by other religions, philosophies, and theological positions.

It is my estimation that such an English series is much needed nowadays, especially in response to current challenges posed by growing trends of atheism. Ibn Taymiyyah's exceptional insight and distinguished explanations of Quranic arguments have helped many Muslims remain intellectually satisfied in the face of doubts and challenges presented by competing world views.

In Sharh al-Asfahaniyyah, Ibn Taymiyyah criticizes the theology of al-Asfahani and other Kalam theologians and disagrees with many of their key arguments by which they sought to demonstrate the main tenets of the Islamic creed. He dedicates an entire chapter to pointing out errors in the argument from composition, an argument adopted from Avicennian philosophy to prove the Oneness of God.

Ibn Taymiyyah goes on to provide alternative rational arguments for God's Oneness from the Qur'an, giving a lengthy explanation of two specific arguments from the chapter of Al-Mu'minun.

About The Author

Shaykh ul Islam Ibn Taymiyyah

Shaykh al-Islam Taqi ud-Din Abu'l-Abbas Ahmad Ibn al-Halim ibn Abd al-Salam Ibn Taymiyyah al-Hanbali was born in, 661 AH (1263 AC) in Harran, which is now in Eastern Turkey, near the border of northern Iraq.

His family had long been renowned for its learning, among his teachers, was Shams ud-Din Al-Maqdisi, first Hanbali Chief Justice of Syria following the reform of the judiciary by Baibars. The number of Ibn Taymiyyah's teachers exceeds two hundred. Ibn Taymiyyah was barely seventeen when Qadi Al-Maqdisi authorised him to issue Fatwa (legal verdict). Qadi remembered with pride that it was he who had first permitted an intelligent and learned man like Ibn Taymiyyah to give Fatwa.

At the same age, he started delivering lectures. When he was thirty, he was offered the office of Chief Justice, but refused, as he could not persuade himself to follow the limitations imposed by the authorities.
Imam Ibn Taymiyyah's education was essentially that of a Hanbali theologian and jurisconsult. But to his knowledge of early and classical Hanbalism, he added not only that of the other schools of jurisprudence but also that of other literature.

He had extensive knowledge of the Quran, Sunnah, Greek philosophy, Islamic history, and religious books of others, as is evident from the variety of the books he wrote.