New games! PlayTrivia andBirthle.

PHILOSOPHER

Ibn Taymiyyah

1263 - 1328

Photo of Ibn Taymiyyah

Icon of person Ibn Taymiyyah

Ibn Taymiyya (Arabic: ٱبْن تَيْمِيَّة; 22 January 1263 – 26 September 1328) was a Sunni Muslim scholar, jurist, traditionist, ascetic, and proto-Salafi and iconoclastic theologian. 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. A legal jurist of the Hanbali school, Ibn Taymiyya's condemnation of numerous folk practices associated with saint veneration and visitation of tombs made him a contentious figure with many rulers and scholars of the time, which caused him to be imprisoned several times as a result.A polarizing figure in his own times and the centuries that followed, Ibn Taymiyya has emerged as one of the most influential medieval scholars in late modern Sunni Islam. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ibn Taymiyyah has received more than 2,155,381 page views. His biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2019). Ibn Taymiyyah is the 100th most popular philosopher (up from 105th in 2019), the 73rd most popular biography from Turkey (up from 76th in 2019) and the 10th 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.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 73.77

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 60

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.12

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.91

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Ibn Taymiyyahs by language


Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Ibn Taymiyyah ranks 100 out of 1,081Before him are Anaximenes of Miletus, Walter Benjamin, Mencius, Zhuang Zhou, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, and Roland Barthes. After him are Theophrastus, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Henri de Saint-Simon, Jacques Derrida, Aristippus, and Joseph Priestley.

Most Popular Philosophers in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings

Contemporaries

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

Others Born in 1263

Go to all Rankings

Others Deceased in 1328

Go to all Rankings

In Turkey

Among people born in Turkey, Ibn Taymiyyah ranks 73 out of 1,301Before him are Aspasia (-470), Anaximenes of Miletus (-585), Hipparchus (-190), Rachel (-3500), Herostratus (-301), and Osman III (1699). After him are Mustafa III (1717), Murad V (1840), Lucian (120), Anacreon (-570), Alexios I Komnenos (1048), and Şehzade Cihangir (1531).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In Turkey

Among philosophers born in Turkey, Ibn Taymiyyah ranks 10Before him are Diogenes (-404), Anaxagoras (-500), Epictetus (50), Xenophanes (-570), Gregory of Nazianzus (329), and Anaximenes of Miletus (-585). After him are Chrysippus (-281), Posidonius (-135), Apollonius of Tyana (15), Proclus (412), Bias of Priene (-600), and Michael Psellos (1018).