Churches in Muslim lands: Ibn Taymiyya’s Mas’alat al-kanā’is

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Published: Oct 1, 2008
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21071/cco.v5i.14729
Keywords:
Dimma. Ibn Taymiyya. Fatwā. The Pact of ʻUmar. Buildings of worship.

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Diego R. SARRIÓ CUCARELLA
Biblioteca Diocesana de Túnez – PISAI, Roma

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Presentation and annotated translation of the Mas’alat al-kanā’is from Taqī al-dīn Aḥmad b. Taymiyya. In this fatwā, written between 1301 and 1306, the famous Ḥanbali jurist approaches the question of the churches in Cairo and other places that were closed in 1301 by order of the Mamluk sultan al-Nāṣir Muḥammad b. Qalāwūn. Accompanying the fatwā is a passage from the Egyptian historian al-Maqrīzī in which he narrates the incident that caused the closing of the churches and the restoration of ʻUmar’s stipulations concerning the dimmis.

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Vol. 5 (2008)
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