280 Anke von Kügelgen
up a few of the subjects he touched therein^113 – and this is true of the
present study, as well.
8. The Reception of Ibn Taymiyya’s
Repudiation of Rationalism
In Ḥanbalī circles, Darʾ taʿāruḍ al-ʿaql wal-naql was regarded as an
opus magnum and often referred to, but the real scope of its impact is
still unknown.^114 Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya (d. 751/1350), for instance,
reproduces several of Ibn Taymiyya’s lines of reasoning in his works,
not least the core of Ibn Taymiyya’s arguments against the precedence
of ratio over scripture in his al-Ṣawāʾiq al-mursala, arranging them in
an independent way and adding his own arguments.^115 Muḥammad b.
113 Ibn Taymiyya’s rejection of falsafa in general is treated by Nurcholis Madjid
(Ibn Taymiyya on Kalām and Falsafa) and touched upon by Thomas Michel
(Ibn Taymiyya’s Critique of Falsafa, in: Hamdard Islamicus 6 (1983), pp. 3–14).
His rebuttal of specific metaphysical and theological subjects and arguments
are dealt with quite extensively by Muḥammad Khalīl Harās, Bāʿith al-nahḍa
al-islāmiyya; al-Ṣughayyir, Mawāqif “rushdiyya” li-Taqī al-Dīn Ibn Taymiyya,
pp. 164–182; M. S. al-Ṭablāwī, Mawqif Ibn Taymiyya min falsafat Ibn Rushd;
Michot, A Mamlūk Theologian’s Commentary, pp. 149–203; Michot, Jean
R.: Ibn Taymiyya. Lettre à Abû l-Fidâʾ; traduction de l’arabe, présentation,
notes et lexique, Louvain-La-Neuve 1994; Çağrıcı, Mustafa: İbn Teymiyye’nin
bakışıyla Gazzâlî-Ibn Rüşd tartışması, in: İslam Tetkikleri Dergisi (Review of
Islamic Studies) 9 (1995), pp. 77–126; Özervarlı, İbn Teymiyye, pp. 405–413;
Marcotte, Roxanne D.: Ibn Taymiyya et sa critique des produits de la faculté
d’estimation (Wahmiyyāt) dans le Darʾ taʿāruḍ al-ʿaql wa al-naql, in: Luqmān
18 (2002), pp. 43–58, I am indebted to Jon Hoover for knowledge of this study;
von Kügelgen, Dialogpartner im Widerspruch, pp. 455–481; Özervarli, The
Qurʾānic Rational Theology of Ibn Taymiyya. See also above, n. 63.
114 Ibn Taymiyya, Darʾ taʿāruḍ al-ʿaql, vol. 1, pp. 4–6; [Ibn Murrī, Shihāb al-Dīn:]:
Athāra min al-taʾrīkh, in: al-Manār 10 (1325/1907), pp. 616–621 (especially
p. 617; see below, n. 118).
115 Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya: al-Ṣawāʾiq al-mursala ʿalā al-jahmiyya wal-muʿaṭṭila,
ed. by ʿAlī b. Muḥammad al-Dakhīl Allāh, Riyadh 1408/1987–1988, vol. 3–4,
pp. 796–1538. I am grateful to Livnat Holtzman for having drawn my atten-
tion to Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya’s reference in this work to Ibn Taymiyya’s
Darʾ taʿāruḍ al-ʿaql wal-naql and for having provided me with a copy of the
respective pages in Muḥammad b. al-Mawṣilī’s Mukhtaṣar (see next note). She
recently pointed out that Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya inserted Ibn Taymiyya’s
long discussion of the Hadith concerning Fiṭra (Darʾ taʿāruḍ al-ʿaql, vol. 8,
pp. 365–468) in his Shifāʾ al-ʿalīl (Holtzman, Livnat: Human Choice and the
Fiṭra Tradition. Some Remarks on the Later Ḥanbalī Use of Ḥadīth in Theo-
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