Ibn Taymiyyah: References & Edit History

Henri Laoust, “Essai sur les doctrines sociales et politiques de Takī-d-Dīn Aḥmad b. Taimīya” (1939), a study of the religious and political thought of Ibn Taymiyyah and an analysis of his influence on contemporary Muslim reformism; Contribution á une étude de la méthodologie canonique de Takī-d-Dīn Aḥmad b. Taimīya (1939), an annotated French translation of two of Ibn Taymiyyah’s dissertations on the foundation of law, particularly on the analogic reasoning in Muslim law; “La Biographie d’Ibn Taimīya d’après Ibn Kathīr,” Bulletin d’Études Orientales, 9:115–162 (1943), complementary notes provided by the historian Ibn Kathīr in the al-Bidāyah, on the subject of Ibn Taymiyyah’s disagreements with his contemporaries; Les Schismes dans l’Islam (1965), places Ibn Taymiyyah in the general development of Islam. The following two translations of Ibn Taymiyyah’s juridical political treatise, the Kitāb al-Siyāsah al-sharʿīyah, should also be noted: one in French by Henri Laoust, Le Traité de droit public d’Ibn Taimīya (1948); and the other in English by Omar A. Farrukh, Ibn Taimiyya on Public and Private Law in Islam (1966).