Foreword by the General EditorAcknowledgementsList of ContributorsIntroductionIbn Taymiyya and His TimesYossef Rapoport and Shahab AhmedPart I. Biography1: Ibn Taymiyya wa-jam?'atu-hu: Authority, Conflict and Consensus in Ibn Taymiyya's Circleby Caterina Bori Part II. Theology2: God Acts by His Will and Power: Ibn Taymiyya's Theology of a Personal God in his Treatise on the Voluntary Attributesby Jon Hoover3: The Qur'?nic Rational Theology of Ibn Taymiyya and his Criticism of the Mutakallim?nby M. Sait Özervarli4: Ibn Taymiyya's 'Theology of the Sunna' and his Polemics with the Ash'aritesby Racha el OmariPart III. Hermeneutics5: Ibn Taymiyya and the Rise of Radical Hermeneutics: An Analysis of an Introduction to the Foundations of Qur'?nic Exegesisby Walid A. Saleh6: Human Choice, Divine Guidance and the Fitra Tradition: The Use of Hadith in Theological Treatises by Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyaby Livnat HoltzmanPart IV. Law7: Ibn Taymiyya's Radical Legal Thought: Rationalism, Pluralism and the Primacy of Intentionby Yossef RapoportPart V. Shi'i and Christian Polemics8: Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn al-Mutahhar al-Hill?: Shi'i Polemics and the Struggle for Religious Authority in Medieval Islamby Tariq al-Jamil9: Apologetic and Polemic in the Letter from Cyprus and Ibn Taymiyya's Jaw?b al-sahih li-man baddala d?n al-Masihby David ThomasPart VI.

Legacy10: From Ibn Hajar al-Haytam? (d.1566) to Khayr al-D?n al-?l?s? (d.1899): Changing Views of Ibn Taymiyya Amongst non-Hanbal? Sunni Scholarsby Khaled El-Rouayheb11: The Sensitive Puritan? Revisiting Ibn Taymiyya's Approach to Law and Spirituality in Light of 20th century Debates on mawlid al-nab?by Raquel M. Ukeles12: Modern Interpretations and Misinterpretations of a Medieval Scholar: Apprehending the Political Thought of Ibn Taymiyyaby Mona HassanBibliographyIndex.