Programme

 

Day 1

 

Opening

9:00: Words of welcome

9:05: Introduction

 

Ibn Taymiyya and Theological and Philosophical Issues

9:15 – 10:45             Chairman: Arjan Post

 

• Jon Hoover (University of Nottingham)

Reflections on Ibn Taymiyya and God as a spatial-temporal existent

 

• Safaruk Chowdhury (Cambridge Muslim College)

Foreknowledge, Causality and Destiny: Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728/1328) on the Problem of Petitionary Prayers 

 

• Adrien Candiard (Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies, Cairo)

Ibn Taymiyya et le Dieu des philosophes : la réfutation de Talḫīṣ de la Métaphysique d’Aristote de Ṯābit Ibn Qurra (m. en 288/901)

 

10:45-11:00 Coffee Break

 

Ibn Taymiyya and Jihad

11:00-12:30             Chairman: Sarah Van Eyken

 

• Mehdi Berriah (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

An important and neglected epistle by Ibn Taymiyya on jihad: Qāʿida fī al-inghimās fi al-ʿaduww

 

• Farid Bouchiba (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris)

Pour quel motif les infidèles doivent-ils être combattus ? Une relecture de la théorie du ǧihād chez Ibn Taymiyya

 

• Yaser Ellethy (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

Ibn Taymiyya’s exegetic view of naskh and his theory of jihad

 

12:30– 14:00: Lunch

 

Reception of Ibn Taymiyya in Pre-Modern and Modern Times

14:00 – 16:00                      Chairman: Mehdi Berriah

 

• Nadjet Zouggar (University of Aix-Marseille)

Ibn Taymiyya était-il hostile à l’imam ʿAlī (nāṣibī) ? aspects de la polémique contemporaine sur cette question

 

• Sarah Van Eyken (KU Leuven)

The legacy of Ibn Taymiyya in the theology of Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Saffārīnī al-Ḥanbalī (d. 1188)

 

• Daoud Riffi (Sciences Po Lille)

Du šayḫ al-islām à l’intellectuel : Réception et fonctions d’Ibn Taymiyya dans la littérature francophone

 

• Kadir Gombeyaz (Kocaeli University)

Ibn Taymiyya between Fact and Fiction in Modern Turkey -A Special Reference to the Perception of Necip Fazıl Kısakürek (1905-1983) on Ibn Taymiyya-

 

19:00 Diner at the restaurant Le Maharaja (16 Rue des Tanneurs, 13100 Aix-en-Provence)

 

Day 2

 

Controversy and Refutation

9:00 – 10:30             Chairman: Nadjet Zouggar

 

• Caterina Bori (University of Bologna)

al-Siyāsa al-sharʿiyya: a concept in history and its applications. Ibn Farḥūn al-Malikī (d. 1397) and his book for judges

 

• Arjan Post (KU Leuven)

No Peace Under Mamluk Rule: How Post-Taymiyyan Ḥanbalīs Continued to Oppose the Mutakallimūn

 

• Livnat Holtzman (Bar-Ilan University)

The Prophet’s Finger: A New Perspective on Ibn Taymiyya’s Trials in Damascus and Cairo

 

10:30-10:45 Coffee Break

 

Tafsīr and Hermeneutics in Ibn Taymiyya

10:45-12:00             Chairman: Jon Hoover

 

• Pieter Coppens (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

Ibn Taymiyya’s Take on Muʿāwiyya and the Making of 20th-Century Salafi Hermeneutics

 

• Ahmed Oulddali (Université Lyon 2)

Herméneutique et « contre-herméneutique » dans l’œuvre d’Ibn Taymiyya

 

Conclusion

12:00-12:30

Publishing process information and timeline

 

12:30  Lunch

 

Final programme

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