Ibn Taymiyyah, Syrian theologian and scholar (born 1263)

Ibn Taymiyya

Islamic scholar and jurist (1263–1328)

Ibn Taymiyya was a Sunni Muslim scholar, jurist, traditionist, Qadiri, 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. A legal…