Tag: Ibn Taymiyyah
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Postscript: Dr. Hammou Al-Nakkari’s Interview in Saudi Arabia on Logic, Ibn Taymiyya, Taha Abderrahmane, and Philosophy in the Arab World
Hammou al-Nakkari, a celebrated logician and philosopher (who has written a dozen books related to conceptual mathematics, pre-classical Arabic logic, notions of Tajdid and Taqlid, a dictionary of Sunni kalam terms, an synthesis on Western legal theory and Usul al-Fiqh, a mathematical comparison of Ghazali and Ibn Taymiyya in logic, et bien beaucoup plus), revealed to the Arab…
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Understanding Ibn Taymiyya’s Approach to Theology
Indibutably, Ibn Taymiyya is heralded as one of the more unique figures within the Islamic civilization and its scholastic tradition. A radically non-conformist scholarly dissenter, he considered himself unbound by the expectations of tradition and the religious accretions of preceding centuries, which had molded contemporary Islam into its normative, orthodox form.
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Fitrah in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Monty Python is hardly the place for great philosophical epiphanies, but sometimes inspiration can be found in the strangest of places.