A Survey of the Principles of Salafism in the semanticsof Narrated Attributes, with an Emphasis on Ibn Taymiyyah's Thought

By narrated attributes is meant ones related to God in relgious essential texts but reasonably viewed, God may not be characterized by them as understood from their superficial meanings. The Salafists attribute these attributes in their surface and true meaninig to God and know themselves incapable of understanding their quality. The authenticity of Salafist understanding, externalism, sensationalism, denial of metaphore in the Quran, taking mutashabih verses as not being understandable, and opposing hermeneutics are of Ibn Taymiyya's principles in the semantics of narrated attributes. This essay has studied this principles with a critico-analytical approach. The validity of salafist understanding is an unreasonable claim, externalism is not consistent with some of the Quranic verses, sensationalism leads to denial of a part of the world of existence, and to corporeality of God, denial of metaphore in the Quran leads to the denial of its state of being miracle in pronouncement, and incomprehensibility of mutashabeh verses opposes muhkamat state of being ummul kitab and Divine command on tadabbur in the holy Quran and leads to impossibility of any knowledge on God.