Translation and Analysis of Ibn Taymiyyah’s Third Anti-Mongol Fatwa
- December 29, 2018
- Posted by: RSIS
- Category: Social Science
International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume II, Issue XII, December 2018 | ISSN 2454–6186
Translation and Analysis of Ibn Taymiyyah’s Third Anti-Mongol Fatwa
Dr. Jabir Sani Maihula
Sokoto State University, Sokoto, Nigeria
Abstract:-The three Anti-Mongol fatwas of Ibn Taymiyyah are his most controversial treatises regarding jihad. The controversial nature of the fatwas exposed them to the exploitation by the jihadists. The fatwas are cited in volume twenty eight of the Majmūʿfatāwā, the third anti-Mongol fatwa is in 28:543 -553. This paper will translate one of these fatwas, the third anti-Mongol fatwa into English and make some analysis on the content of the fatwa. The aim of the translation and analysis is to make the fatwa available to the non-Arabic readers to avoid accessing the fatwas from the analysis of the extremists and also to contextualize Ibn Taymiyyah’s harshness in fatwas to the Mongol period.
Keywords: Translation, Ibn Taimiyyah, and Anti-Mongol Fatwa.
I. INTRODUCTION
The Anti-Mongol fatwas of Ibn Taymiyyah are his most controversial treatises regarding jihad. The controversial nature of the fatwas exposed them to the exploitation by the jihadists (Hoover, 2016, p, 3). Almost all the contemporary jihadists from ʿAbd al-SalāmFaraj to ISIS use the fatwas as justification of the apostasy of the contemporary Muslim rulers. Moreover, ISIS uses the fatwas and Ibn Taymiyyah’s letter about the Mongol to justify the apostasy of contemporary Muslim communities for refusing to join the Islamic State. (Mongol, 2016 p, 47), Prior to the emergence of the contemporary jihadists, the Wahhābi scholars used the fatwas to justify the apostasy of grave venerators and others. In some instances, the jihadists quote the fatwas through the Wahhābi scholars. The three anti Mongol fatwas are cited in volume twenty eight of the Majmūʿfatāwā,the third anti-Mongol fatwa is in 28:543 -553 (Ibn Taymiyyah, 1961, p, 67).
