منهج الإمام ابن حزم والإمام ابن تيمية في نقد عقيدة التثليث عند النصارى

Critical Approaches of Imām Ibn Ḥazm and Imām Ibn Taymiyyah to the Christian Doctrine of the Trinity

Abstract

This article aims to discuss the methodology adopted by two prominent medieval Muslim scholars Imām Ibn Ḥazm and Imām Ibn Taymiyyah in responding to the Christian doctrine of the Trinity. Christianity is a Semitic religion which is based on the oneness of God. Ibn Ḥazm is one of the first Muslim scholars, who presented a critical study of Christian beliefs. Muslims were the first to establish rules for the study of different religions. Ibn Ḥazam was a pioneer in applying these rules to the study of other religions. He acquired first-hand information about other religions as he lived in a multifaith society in Muslim Spain. He studied and analyzed the primary sources of other religions and gave judgements on them on solid grounds. His book Kitāb al-Fiṣal fī ’l-Milal wa ’l-Ahwā’ wa ’l-Niḥal is a useful source of the comparative study of religions. Similarly, Ibn Taymiyyah was a renowned scholar, jurist, and theologian of his time. He wrote on the doctrine of the Trinity in many of his works. That is why, I have chosen this topic to analyse and assess the works of these two important medieval Muslim scholars about the doctrine of the Trinity and their approaches to this topic.