Language:
English
Year of publication:
2022
Titel der Quelle:
Entangled Religions; Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer
Angaben zur Quelle:
13,2 (2022) pp. 15
Keywords:
Ibn Taymiyah, Ahmad ibn 'Abd al-Halim,
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New Testament. Relation to Psalms
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Islam Relations
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Christianity
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Islam Relations
;
Judaism
Abstract:
Early and medieval Muslim anti-Christian polemicists do not present a uni-form account of the Gospel’s relation to the Torah, and polemical concerns drive thepositions they adopt. This article focuses on how Damascene theologian Ibn Taymiyya(d. 1328) responds to a provocation originating in the Christian Paul of Antioch. Paul ar-gues that God sent Moses the law of justice and Christ the perfect law of grace, implyingthat the Qurʾān is not needed, at least not for Christians. Drawing on Islamic legal cate-gories and invoking Sufi theological ideas, Ibn Taymiyya counters that the Torah and theGospel contain both justice as obligation and grace as recommendation, with obligationmore prominent in the Torah and recommendation in the Gospel, as part of a prophetichistory leading up to the Qurʾān, which contains both in perfect balance. With this, IbnTaymiyya provides a more extensive and sophisticated account of the Torah-Gospel rela-tion than his predecessors.
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