Ibn Taymiyya's pilgrimage and his treatise on the rites, 691/1292

حج ابن تيمية ورسالته في المناسك، ٦٩١هـ/١٢٩٢م

c. November 1292 CE · c. 691 AH – c. February 1293 CE · c. 692 AH

Mecca → Damascus

Ibn Taymiyya performed the pilgrimage to Mecca toward the end of 691/November 1292 and was back in Damascus in 692/February 1293, bringing from the journey the substance of his treatise Manasik al-hajj, in which he denounced a number of innovations that had entered the rites of the pilgrimage 1.

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The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
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Levant & Iraq · Arabia
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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

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Ibn Taymiyya performed the pilgrimage to Mecca toward the end of 691/November 1292 and was back in Damascus in 692/February 1293, bringing from the journey the substance of his treatise Manasik al-hajj, in which he denounced a number of innovations that had entered the rites of the pilgrimage 1.

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Ibn Taymiyya
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Mecca· Damascus

People and things also explored

Al-Subki's journey to Damascus and the Pilgrimage, c. 710/1310· Al-Zamakhshari's second journey to Mecca via Damascus, 526/1132· Ghazan's Campaign against Syria, 700 AH· Ibn Kathir attaches himself to Ibn Taymiyya and is tried on his account, about 726-728/1326-1328· Ibn Qayyim's pilgrimage with the Syrian caravan, 731/1331· Ibn Qayyim attaches himself to Ibn Taymiyya on the latter's return to Damascus, 712/1312-13· The Assaf al-Nasrani affair and Ibn Taymiyya's first imprisonment, 693/1293· The last imprisonment in the Damascus citadel until death, 726-728/1326-1328

Sources

  1. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 3 p. 983
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Al-Subki's journey to Damascus and the Pilgrimage, c. 710/1310

After his studies in Cairo, al-Subki travelled to Damascus and performed the Pilgrimage, then returned to Egypt to teach at the Mansuriyya madrasa beside the mosque of Ibn Tulun; Ibn Kathir records that he journeyed to Syria, studied on his own, wrote and taught.