THE ANALYSIS OF IBN TAIMIYA STATEMENTS ABOUT THE ATTRIBUTES OF GOD

The urgency of the studied problem is caused with the revival of the religious heritage of Ibn Taimiya by representatives of various radical extremist groups, including the terrorist formation of ISIS. The ambiguous views of this religious figure are interpreted differently by representatives of different groups and movements, and in some cases the interpretations are quite extremist. It also applies to the interpretation of the attributes of God, where Ibn Taimiya borrows and revives the views of various sects of anthropomorphists, whose ideas are fundamentally contrary to the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad. The subject of the study is Ibn Taimiya's statements about the attributes of God. The aim of the work is to conduct a theological analysis of the views of this religious figure regarding the attributes and qualities of the Almighty and compare them with the classical asharic-maturidite doctrine. To solve the problems posed in the dissertation study there were used the system of complementary methods of theoretical knowledge, General logical methods and techniques of research: analysis, synthesis, comparison, analogy, abstraction, generalization; as well as special methods of theological research: the method of content analysis; the hermeneutic method – the method of interpretation of religious (sacred) texts and meanings; the etymological (semantic) method; the comparative method – the comparative identification of common and special; the syncretic method – the combination of disparate ways of thinking and views, forming the conditional unity; the hypothetical-deductive method – the method of scientific knowledge and reasoning, based on the deduction (deduction) conclusions from hypotheses and other assumptions, the truth value of which are unknown. As a result, a comprehensive study of Ibn Taimiya's views was conducted and their features were identified. The results of the study may be used in the preparation of training courses in theology, religious studies, history and philosophy. In the course of the study we have come to the conclusion that Ibn Taimiya had borrowed the views of the ancient anthropomorphist sects and had developed them in his works