This thesis contains a textual and contextual study of Ibn Taymiyya's famous anti-christian polemical work, and connects it to the most important socio-political and religious development in the...Show moreThis thesis contains a textual and contextual study of Ibn Taymiyya's famous anti-christian polemical work, and connects it to the most important socio-political and religious development in the Mamluk age: the muslim reaction to the crusades on the one hand and internal friction in the muslim society due to the popularity of heterodoxy on the other hand.Show less