Publisher's Synopsis
The book discusses the 14th-century Hanbalite and reformer Ibn Taimiya's concept of innovation in general and its manifestation in the realm of Muslim festival in particular and argues against innovation by analyzing a wide variety of Ibn Taimiya's writings. It seeks to alter the situation by presenting the ideas of this reformer insofar as they relate to popular Muslim beliefs and their basic incompatibility with the original precepts of Islam.