At a glance
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
In time
In space
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Overview
In 718/1318 a letter from the sultan forbade Ibn Taymiyya to issue fatwas on repudiation contrary to prevailing Hanbali doctrine: he had denied that three repudiations uttered at once took effect and counted an oath of repudiation a single oath where no repudiation was intended. Two councils presided over by Tankiz in 718 and 719 were followed by a third on 20 Rajab 720/26 August 1320, which found him in breach of the prohibition and condemned him to prison; he spent just over five months in the Damascus citadel, released on 10 Muharram 721/9 February 1321 by decree of al-Malik al-Nasir 1.
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· Ibn Taymiyya at the victory of Shaqhab, 702/1303· 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. 985
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “The divorce fatwas and the Damascus citadel imprisonment, 718-721/1318-1321”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/ibn-taymiyya-talaq-imprisonment-720/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-09.
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