Ibn Taymiyyah (d. 728 H / 1328 CE), may Allah be merciful with him, in his
famous treatise, ar-Risalah al-'Arshiyah, refutes the position of the
neo-Platonic philosophers who identified Allah's Throne with the ninth celestial
sphere (Majmu'ul-Fatawa, Vol. 6, pp. 546-ff). In the course of his...