Ibn Taymiyya's rejection of some aspects of classical Islamic tradition are believed to have had considerable influence on contemporary militant Islamist movements such as Salafi-Jihadism. Nevertheless, Ibn Taymiyya's numerous treatises that advocated "creedal Salafism" ( al-salafiyya al-iʿtiqādīyya), based on his particular interpretations of the Qur'an and the Sunnah, constitute the most popular classical reference for later Salafi movements. This would prompt numerous clerics and state authorities to accuse Ibn Taymiyyah and his disciples of being guilty of " tashbīh" ( anthropomorphism) which eventually led to the censoring of his works and subsequent incarceration. He was also noteworthy for engaging in intense religious polemics that defended Athari school against the followers of rival schools of Kalam (speculative theology) namely Ash'arism and Maturidism. Ī polarising figure in his own times and in the centuries that followed, Ibn Taymiyyah has emerged as one of the most influential medieval writers in contemporary Sunni Islam. A member of the Hanbali school, Ibn Taymiyyah's iconoclastic views that condemned numerous folk practices associated with saint veneration and the visitation of tomb-shrines made him unpopular with many scholars and rulers of the time, and he was imprisoned several times. He is known for his diplomatic involvement with the Ilkhanid ruler Ghazan Khan and for his involvement at the Battle of Marj al-Saffar which ended the Mongol invasions of the Levant. Ibn Taymiyyah (Janu– SeptemArabic: ابن تيمية), birth name Taqī ad-Dīn ʾAḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥalīm ibn ʿAbd al-Salām al-Numayrī al-Ḥarrānī ( Arabic: تقي الدين أحمد بن عبد الحليم بن عبد السلام النميري الحراني), was a Sunni ʿĀlim, muhaddith, judge, proto-Salafist theologian, and sometimes controversial thinker and political figure.
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