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tests the significance of both authors, examining why Ibn al-Qayy-
im made an even lesser impact than Ibn Taymiyya. The contribution
by Syamsuddin Arif entitled “Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya in the ‘Lands
Below the Wind’: An Ideological Father of Radicalism or a Popular
Sufi Master?” deals with translations into other ‘Oriental’ languages,
since Indonesia is the demographically largest Muslim country in the
world and Indonesian translations from the Arabic also have a great
impact on the religious landscape in neighboring Malaysia. In “Screen-
ing Ṣiddīq Ḥasan Khān’s Library: The Use of Ḥanbalī Literature in
19 th-Century Bhopal”, Claudia Preckel turns to Ḥanbalī influences on
the Indian Ahl-i Ḥadīth-movement; she depicts the collection, trans-
lation and overall appropriation activities of the spouse of the third
female ruler of the North Indian Local Dynasty of Bophal as a decisive
agent in that process. Part five examines appropriations “Outside the
Arab World”: Martin Riexinger highlights “Ibn Taymiyya’s World-
view and the Challenge of Modernity: A Conflict Among the Ahl-i
Ḥadīth in British India”, while Annabelle Böttcher, in her contribu-
tion entitled “Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya as Changing
Salafi Icons”, considers contemporary Germany. Part four, “Inclusion
and Exclusion in Islamic Theology and Law”, assembles articles on
either law or theology under the shared rhetoric of punishing deviance
as well as the “us versus them” mentality with which both Ḥanbalī
authors are so persistently associated: Abdessamad Belhaj presents
“Law and Order According to Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn Qayyim al-
Jawziyya: A Re-Examination of siyāsa sharʿiyya”; Dominik Schlosser
elaborates on “Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya’s Attitude Toward Christian-
ity in Hidāyat al-ḥayārā fī ajwibat al-yahūd wal-naṣārā”, while Jon
Hoover speaks out “Against Islamic Universalism: ʿAlī al-Ḥarbī’s 1990
Attempt to Prove that Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya
Affirm the Eternity of Hell-Fire”. Needless to mention, the current
arrangement could easily have been shaped otherwise.
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