Introduction -- 1. Ethical value between deontology and consequentialism -- 2. Ethical knowledge between human self-guidance and the revealed law -- 3. Ibn Taymiyya's ethics and its Ash'arite antecedents -- 4. The aims of the law and the morality of God -- 5. Broader perspectives on Ibn Taymiyya's ethical rationalism -- 6. Return to the present

Ibn Taymiyya is a thinker often associated with dogmatism, but who also valued moderation and considered himself a defender of the harmony between human reason and religious faith. By closely examining the tenets of his ethical thought, Sophia Vasalou sheds fresh light on Taymiyya's intellectual identity