Ahmad ibn Hanbal - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

This scholar wrote the Refutations of the Heretics and the Jahmiyya, criticizing the Jahmiyya’s belief that God cannot be described by attributes. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this religious scholar, a leader of the Ahl al-Hadith movement. Ibn Taymiyya adhered to an early school named for this scholar that rejects taqlid.

ANSWER: Ahmad ibn Hanbal [accept Hanbali school or Hanbalism]

[10e] Most adherents of the Hanbali school are from Qatar and this country. The Wahhabism movement emerged in this country home to Medina.

ANSWER: Saudi Arabia [or Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; or KSA]

[10m] Movements adhering to the Hanbali school, such as Wahhabism and Salafism, reject taqlid in favor of this practice. Orientalist scholars claimed that the “gates” of this practice of independent interpretation had “closed.”

ANSWER: ijtihad [accept gates of ijtihad; accept independent reasoning; prompt on physical or mental effort or exertion]

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California	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	11.67	100%	17%	0%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	10	14.00	100%	20%	20%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	8	11.25	100%	13%	0%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


Claremont A	UC Berkeley B	0	10	0	10
UCLA	Claremont B	0	10	0	10
UC Berkeley A	UCSD	0	10	0	10
Iowa State	Carleton	0	10	0	10
Minnesota B	Winona State	0	10	0	10
Wisconsin A	Wisconsin B	0	10	0	10
Oxford C	Bristol	0	10	0	10
NYU C	Cambridge A	0	10	0	10
Cambridge B	Oxford A	0	10	0	10
Cambridge C	Manchester	10	10	10	30
UCF B	Florida B	0	10	0	10
UCF C	Florida A	0	10	0	10
Liberty B	William & Mary	0	10	0	10
UNC B	South Carolina	0	10	0	10
Virginia A	Liberty C	0	10	0	10
UNC D	Wake Forest	0	10	0	10
Illinois B	Indiana A	0	10	0	10
Missoui S&T	Illinois A	0	10	0	10
Tufts A	Brandeis A	0	10	0	10
Brandeis B	BU	0	10	0	10
Dartmouth A	Harvard A	0	10	0	10
MIT A	Harvard B	0	10	0	10
Alberta	UBC	0	10	0	10
UW B	UW A	0	10	0	10
ASU	TAMU	0	10	0	10
Louisville A	Georgia Tech B	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech A	Vanderbilt A	0	10	0	10
Bruin A	Tennessee A	0	10	0	10
Durham	Warwick A	0	10	0	10
Imperial B	Warwick B	0	10	0	10
Columbia B	Maryland A	0	10	10	20
Maryland B	George Washington B	0	10	0	10
Haverford B	John Jay College	0	10	0	10
Valencia A	Florida State A	0	10	0	10
Duke	UNC C	0	10	0	10
Virginia Tech A	Liberty A	0	10	0	10
Chicago C	Chicago B	0	10	0	10
Chicago D	Missouri	0	10	0	10
Indiana B	Illinois C	0	10	0	10
Chicago A	WashU B	0	10	10	20
Brown A	UMass Boston	0	10	0	10
Texas A	Texas B	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech C	Georgia Tech D	0	10	0	10
LSE	Cambridge D	0	10	10	20
Imperial A	Cambridge E	10	10	0	20
Sheffield	Southampton A	0	10	0	10
Southampton B	Oxford B	0	10	0	10
Haverford A	Cornell B	0	10	0	10
George Washington A	Vassar A	0	10	0	10
Johns Hopkins A	NYU B	0	10	0	10
Penn A	Penn B	0	10	0	10
Yale A	Rutgers A	0	10	0	10
Cornell C	Binghamton A	0	10	0	10
Cornell D	RIT A	0	10	0	10
ESF A	RIT B	0	10	0	10