Ibn Taymiyya dies a prisoner in the Damascus citadel; the Hanbali scholar's fatwas against saint veneration and speculative theology, marginal in his own century, are taken up by reform movements centuries later and stand behind the Wahhabi alliance of 1744.
Tagged: Hanbali Muslim Sunni Islam
The Event
- Date
- 1328 (exact)
- Era
- Later Empires; Standard periodization of Islamic history
- Location
- Damascus; today Damascus, Syria
- Traditions
- Islam
- Streams
- Hanbali, Sunni Islam
- Key figures
- Ibn Taymiyya
- Key texts
- Majmu al-Fatawa
Primary Sources
- Majmu al-Fatawa
Secondary Sources
- Berkey, The Formation of Islam: Religion and Society in the Near East, 600-1800 (Cambridge, 2003)
- Hallaq, An Introduction to Islamic Law (Cambridge, 2009)
Provenance: HIST-0241; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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