Ibn Taymiyyah - Works

Works

Ibn Taymiyyah left a considerable body of work (350 works listed by his student Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya and 500 by his student al-Dhahabi) that has been republished extensively in Syria, Egypt, Arabia, and India. Extant books and essays written by ibn Taymiyyah include:

• A Great Compilation of Fatwa—(Majmu al-Fatwa al-Kubra) This was collected centuries after his death, and contains several of the works mentioned below.
• Minhaj as-Sunnah an-Nabawiyyah—(The Pathway of as-Sunnah an-Nabawiyyah)—Volumes 1–4
• Al-Aqidah Al-Waasitiyyah—(The Creed to the People of Wāsiṭ)
• Darʾ taʿāruḍ al-ʿaql wa al-naql (The rejection of the conflict between reason and revelation)—10 Volumes. Also called Al-Muwāfaqa ("harmony").
• Majmoo' al-Fatawa—(Compilation of Fatawa) Volumes 1–36
• al-Aqeedah Al-Hamawiyyah—(The Creed to the People of Hama, Syria)
• al-Asma wa's-Sifaat—(Allah's Names and Attributes) Volumes 1–2
• 'al-Iman—(Faith)
• al-Jawab as Sahih li man Baddala Din al-Masih (Literally, "The Correct Response to those who have Corrupted the Deen (Religion) of the Messiah"; A Muslim theologian's response to Christianity)—seven volumes, over a thousand pages.
• as-Sarim al-Maslul ‘ala Shatim ar-Rasul—The Drawn Sword against those who insult the Messenger. Written in response to an incident in which Ibn Taymiyyah heard a Christian insulting Muhammad. The book is well-known because he wrote it entirely by memory, while in jail, and quoting more than hundreds of references.
• Fatawa al-Kubra
• Fatawa al-Misriyyah
• ar-Radd 'ala al-Mantiqiyyin (Refutation of Greek Logicians)
• Naqd at-Ta'sis
• al-Uboodiyyah—(Subjection to God)
• Iqtida' as-Sirat al-Mustaqim'—(Following The Straight Path)
• al-Siyasa al-shar'iyya
• at-Tawassul wal-Waseela
• Sharh Futuh al-Ghayb—(Commentary on Revelations of the Unseen by Abdul-Qadir Gilani)

Some of his other works have been translated to English. They include:

• The Friends of Allah and the Friends of Shaytan
• Kitab al Iman: The Book of Faith
• Diseases of the Hearts and their Cures
• The Relief from Distress
• Fundamentals of Enjoining Good & Forbidding Evil
• The Concise Legacy
• The Goodly Word
• The Madinan Way
• Ibn Taymiyya against the Greek logicians
• Muslims Under Non-Muslim Rule