Reading Ibn Taymiyya in Granada. A Study of Inexplicit Citation

Ibn Taymiyya's intellectual legacy has been a matter of scholarly dispute.2 It has generally been thought that he had almost no scholarly influence after his death until the nineteenth‐century, particularly outside Ḥanbalī circles.3 While one cannot deny the conspicuous absence of explicit engagement with Ibn Taymiyya's thought prior to the nineteenth‐century, particularly in comparison to the remarkable surge of interest in his thought in the modern period, this observation should not lead us to overlook cases of inexplicit and indirect engagement, even if this engagement is obviously harder to find and sometimes difficult to prove. It should also not prevent us from considering cases of negative citation, where Ibn Taymiyya is mentioned in order to be refuted. This study seeks to revisit certain aspects of Ibn Taymiyya's legacy by examining evidence of indirect or inexplicit engagement with his works. It also aims to explore the reasons why the legacy of such a radical thinker and controversial scholar became so conspicuously absent after his death.