Project

Innovation (bid'a), apostasy (irtidād) and blasphemy (sabb) according to Ibn Taymiyya (1263-1328): A diachronic study of an influential doctrine.

Code
3F004109
Duration
01 October 2009 → 30 September 2013
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Humanities
    • History
    • Theology and religious studies
Keywords
islamic history and law islam
 
Project description

The diachronic study and reconstruction of the ideas about innovation (bid'a), apostasy (irtidād) and blasphemy (sabb) of Ibn Taymiyya (1263-1328), one of the most influential Islamic thinkers until the present, by means of a reconstruction of his related doctrine, its evolution and background, as found in his own works and in their confrontation with the intellectual and sociopolitical context.