Congratulations to Dr Jon Hoover on the upcoming publication of his new book, an interpretation of the life and work of the influential and controversial fourteenth century Muslim scholar Ibn Taymiyya. Out in the UK on 5 December, it’s the first analytical English language introduction to this medieval religious scholar who has been both celebrated and vilified in his lifetime and after, for his activism and controversial ideas.
Dr Hoover says: “My job as an historian is to do my level best to get back to original sources and see what people like Ibn Taymiyya were doing and thinking on their own terms, in their own time.
“Ibn Taymiyya is a significant and highly influential scholar who thought Islam was also being diluted and wasn’t sufficiently pure – the original message was being lost. It was a matter of intra-Islamic conflict; different visions of what Islam should be. These disagreements were not just between him and the Mongols, they were within his own society."
You can read more about the publication here: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/ibn-taymiyya-hoover-book
Posted on Tuesday 19th November 2019