A Treasury of Ibn Taymiyyah: His Timeless Thought and Wisdom Toys 1309) lived in Egypt during

1309) lived in Egypt during the reign of the Mamluks

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while the privileged classes took the war as an opportunity to make more profits than ever before

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reducing the Egyptian working class to abject poverty

A Treasury of Ibn Taymiyyah: His Timeless Thought and Wisdom Toys 1309) lived in Egypt duringThe DAMASCENE POLYMATH, Shaykh al Islam Ibn Taymiyyah (d. 728 1328) is one of the most fascinating scholars from medieval Islamic civilization, acknowledged for his intellectual brilliance by both his admirers and his detractors. His readiness to present his own scholarly interpretations of scripture, and his instinctive rejection of much of the received wisdom of his day, mark him out as one of the most original thinkers of Islam, and indeed, one of