ON May 22, 2003, 10 days after a series of suicide bombings in Riyadh, a leading Saudi newspaper published an article entitled 'The individual and the homeland are more valuable than Ibn Taymiyya.' ...

The killing of Jordanian pilot Moaz al-Kasasbeh by Islamic State has been explained as an act of retaliation for the air campaign against it. But there have been many questions about whether ...

Last month, a group of prominent Muslim scholars met in the Turkish city of Mardin to revisit the Mardin fatwa, the 14th-century legal edict written by Muslim scholar Ibn Taymiyya, who lived during ...

PARIS (Reuters) - Prominent Muslim scholars have recast a famous medieval fatwa on jihad, arguing the religious edict radical Islamists often cite to justify killing cannot be used in a globalized ...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Driven by radical beliefs, twin brothers allegedly killed their mother in Saudi Arabia after she tried to stop them from joining Islamic State in Syria in a case that outraged Saudi ...

This book discusses a conference that was held in the Turkish city of Mardin in 2010, looking at a fatwa issued by Sheikh Al-Islam Ibn Taymiyya in the Islamic 7th century Mardin: Ibn Taymiyyah and the ...

Sir, David Gardner’s comparison of Ibn Taymiyya, the intellectual godfather of Wahhabi Islam, with Tomás de Torquemada, the famed Spanish inquisitor, may be misplaced (“A return to reason”, Life & ...