The Anti-Rationalism of Taimiya

M-Taimiya is a figure whose writings and opinions seem to be more widespread in the 20th century than ever before. For him reason means common sense and reasoning about moral and social questions on the basis of the Islamic revelation or on empirical grounds. Even Taimiya does not reject natural science as such, he does reject what I called in one of M-A-T-C-A-Yin Intellectualism.