At a glance
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
In time
In space
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Overview
During the new Mongol invasion of 702/1303 Ibn Taymiyya was present at the victory of Shaqhab on 4 Ramadan 702/22 April 1303, having been commissioned to issue a fatwa permitting the fighters to break the fast. Before that, in 700, he had ridden the barid post to Cairo in Jumada I, rousing the people to jihad and asking Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad ibn Qalawun to intervene in Syria 1 2.
Connections
- Had participant
- Ibn Taymiyya
- Occurred at
- Damascus
- During the reign of
- al-Mustakfi I
People and things also explored
Ibn Kathir attaches himself to Ibn Taymiyya and is tried on his account, about 726-728/1326-1328· Ibn Qayyim attaches himself to Ibn Taymiyya on the latter's return to Damascus, 712/1312-13· The last imprisonment in the Damascus citadel until death, 726-728/1326-1328· Ibn Taymiyya's return to Damascus under Tankiz, 712/1313· The divorce fatwas and the Damascus citadel imprisonment, 718-721/1318-1321· The Wasitiyya councils and the Cairo citadel imprisonment, 705-707/1306-1307· Al-Mizzi takes the shaykhhood of Dar al-Hadith al-Ashrafiyya, Damascus, 718/1318· Al-Mizzi is jailed over Ibn Taymiyya and the Khalq Af'al al-Ibad, 705/1305
Sources
- Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 3 p. 983
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 429
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islam.museum contributors. “Ibn Taymiyya at the victory of Shaqhab, 702/1303”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/ibn-taymiyya-shaqhab-702/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-09.
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