, Taḳī al-Dīn Aḥmad Ibn Taymiyya , born at Ḥarrān on 10 Rabīʿ I 661/22 January 1263 and died at Damascus on 20 D̲h̲u ’l-Ḳaʿda 728/26 September 1328, Ḥanbalī theologian and jurisconsult. Belonging to a family which had already given to this school two well-known scholars, his uncle Fak̲h̲r al-Dīn (d. 622/1225) and his paternal grandfather Mad̲j̲d al-Dīn (d. 653/1255), Ibn Taymiyya was forced to leave his native town in 667/1269 before the approach of the Mongols and to take refuge…