478 Annabelle Böttcher
al-ʿUthaymīn (1926–2001) with ten texts. Notably, only then comes
Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya with more than eight texts followed by Bilāl
Philips (b. 1947), an American convert, with six texts.^70 Muḥammad
b. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (1703–1792)^71 and ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Ibn Bāz^72 are each
represented with four texts on the website. The Shāfiʿī scholar Ibn
Kathīr appears three times^73 as does the Saudi Arabian scholar ʿAbd
Allāh al-Fawzān (b. 1933).^74 Other authors appear only once.^75
Conspicuous in all of this is the overall dominance of state-approved
scholars from the time when Ḥasan Dabbāgh carried out his crash-
course in Saudi Arabia. In sharp contrast to the official iconic status of
Ibn Taymiyya, his student Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya is represented more
often than his famous teacher from whom this website offers only two
texts. The majority of Ibn al-Qayyim’s texts are located in the section
on education and self-purification (tazkiya) that deals with monitoring
one’s hidden desires and inclinations in order to direct them in a pious
70 Philipps, Abu Ameenah Bilal: Die Bereiche des Tauhid; online: http://www.
salaf.de/swf/aqd0014.swf; idem: Zakah al-fiṭr; online: http://www.salaf.de/swf/
ibd0016.swf; idem: Die Verhaertung des Herzens; online: http://www.salaf.de/
swf/tarb0025.swf; idem: Lehrbuch des Islam, Bd. 1; online: http://www.salaf.
de/swf/ver0002.swf; idem: Die wahre Religion Gottes; online: http://www.
salaf.de/swf/fue0002.swf, all accessed Dec. 04, 2010.
71 Shaykh al-Islām Ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb, Muḥammad: Religiöse Erscheinungen
der Dschahiliya, translated from English to German by Azad Ibn Muhammad,
2004; online: http://www.salaf.de/swf/ver0001.swf, accessed August 1, 2008,
31 pages; idem: Die Bedingungen, Säulen und Pflichten des Gebetes, translated
from English into Germany by Abu Imran, 2005; online: http://www.salaf.de/
swf/ibd0002.swf, accessed Dec. 04, 2010, 13 pages.
72 bin Baz, Abdul Aziz: Wichtige Lektionen für die Muslimische Gemeinschaft,
translated by Umm Amani al-Akad, 2003; online: http://www.salaf.de/swf/
tarb0023.swf, accessed Dec. 04, 2010, twelve pages; Ibn Baz, Abdu-l-Aziz Ibn
Abdullah: Die Art des Propheten, das Gebet zu verrichten, translated from
English into German by K. al-Akad, 2004; online: http://www.salaf.de/swf/
ibd0001.swf, accessed Dec. 04, 2010, ten pages.
73 Ibn Kathir, Imam: Erläuterung von missverstandenen Versen, 2001; online:
http://www.salaf.de/swf/qur0008.swf, accessed Dec. 04, 2010, five pages.
74 Ibn Salih al-Fawzan, ‘Abdullah: Die Nacht von al-Qadr. From Ahadith as-
Siyam; Ahkam wa Adab (pp. 141–143, translated from English to German by
Amr Abdullah, 2002; online: http://www.salaf.de/swf/ibd0011.swf, accessed
Dec. 04, 2010, five pages. Here the author is most probably the Saudi scholar
Shaykh Ṣāliḥ Ibn Fawzān Ibn ʿAbd Allāh.
75 Among them are Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal (780–855) himself, the Saudi scholar
Muḥammad Saʿīd al-Qaḥtānī, the deceased Yemenite scholar Muqbil al-Wādīʿī,
the South African Salafi Ahmad Didat (b. 1926) and the Indian Salafi Zakir Naik
(b. 1965) from Mumbai.
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