PHILOSOPHER

Ibn Taymiyyah

1263 - 1328

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Ibn Taymiyya (Arabic: ٱبْن تَيْمِيَّة; 22 January 1263 – 26 September 1328) was a Sunni Muslim scholar, jurist, traditionist, ascetic, proto-Salafi theologian and iconoclast. He is known for his diplomatic involvement with the Ilkhanid ruler Ghazan Khan at the Battle of Marj al-Saffar, which ended the Mongol invasions of the Levant. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ibn Taymiyyah has received more than 2,205,744 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). Ibn Taymiyyah is the 90th most popular philosopher (up from 100th in 2019), the 62nd most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 73rd in 2019) and the 9th most popular Turkish Philosopher.

Ibn Taymiyyah is most famous for his belief that Muslims should not live under non-Muslim rule. He also believed that the Muslim world should be united under one caliphate.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Ibn Taymiyyah ranks 90 out of 1,267. Before him are Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, John of Damascus, Athanasius of Alexandria, Peter Abelard, Theophrastus, and Johann Gottfried Herder. After him are Leucippus, Walter Benjamin, Zhuang Zhou, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Jean Bodin, and Boethius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1263, Ibn Taymiyyah ranks 1. After him are Isabella of Villehardouin, Yolande of Dreux, Queen of Scotland, David VIII of Georgia, and Theobald II, Duke of Lorraine. Among people deceased in 1328, Ibn Taymiyyah ranks 1. After him are Charles IV of France, Meister Eckhart, Clementia of Hungary, Isabella of Castile, Queen of Aragon, Yesün Temür, John of Montecorvino, Ragibagh Khan, Galeazzo I Visconti, Charles, Duke of Calabria, Prince Hisaaki, and Castruccio Castracani.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Ibn Taymiyyah ranks 62 out of 1,347. Before him are Apollonius of Perga (-262), Abdulmejid I (1823), Aspasia (-470), Hatice Sultan (1496), Abdul Hamid I (1725), and Selim III (1761). After him are Mahmud I (1696), Leucippus (-500), Saint Blaise (300), Osman III (1699), Anaximenes of Miletus (-585), and Şehzade Mehmed (1522).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Türkiye

Among philosophers born in Türkiye, Ibn Taymiyyah ranks 9. Before him are Diogenes (-404), Anaximander (-610), Anaxagoras (-500), Epictetus (50), Xenophanes (-570), and Gregory of Nazianzus (329). After him are Leucippus (-500), Anaximenes of Miletus (-585), Chrysippus (-281), Proclus (412), Apollonius of Tyana (15), and Bias of Priene (-600).

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