Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya

Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya

Shams ad-Dīn Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr ibn Ayyūb az-Zurʿī d-Dimashqī l-Ḥanbalī (29 January 1292–15 September 1350 CE / 691 AH–751 AH), commonly known as Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya ("The son of the principal of [the school of] Jawziyyah") or Ibn al-Qayyim ("Son of the principal"; ابن القيّم) for short, or reverentially as Imam Ibn al-Qayyim in Sunni tradition, was an important medieval Islamic jurisconsult, theologian, and spiritual writer. Belonging to the Hanbali school of orthodox Sunni jurisprudence, of which he is regarded as "one of the most important thinkers," Ibn al-Qayyim was also the foremost disciple and student of Ibn Taymiyya, with whom he was imprisoned in 1326 for dissenting against established tradition during Ibn Taymiyya's famous incarceration in the Citadel of Damascus. Of humble origin, Ibn al-Qayyim's father was the principal (qayyim) of the School of Jawziyya, which also served as a court of law for the Hanbali judge of Damascus during the time period. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya has received more than 719,012 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya is the 491st most popular religious figure (up from 604th in 2019), the 19th most popular biography from Syria (up from 24th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Syrian Religious Figure.

Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya is most famous for his book al-Wabil al-Sayyib min al-Kalim al-Tayyib. The book is a commentary on the famous work by the scholar Imam Al-Ghazali, Ihya Ulum al-Din.