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#7402: - IS emerges from radical Islamic jurisprudence 

 The author is right in general but wrong in some details. Yes Ibn Taymiyya is a big influence and these extremists hail Ibn Taymiyya as the only scholar without error between the ages of 300-1200 Hijra years, but on the other hand the interpretation of Ibn Taymiyyas views that underwent through 18th century Wahhabist movement was even worse and added extremism to the finest possible extent. If one reads the biography of the 18-19th century wahhabist movement instead from the arabic sources, you can find exact mirror of much of ISIS. So in many cases Ibn Taymiyya is innocent of what these people do, just for sake of example Ibn Taymiyya himself was a practicing sufi himself following the Qadiri order of sufism, which was a major sufi order among hanbalis. There were and are hanbalis in Syria and Egypt and they have all been united in voicing opposition to Saudi Wahhabism from its earliest emergence. And infact even the hanbalis of Arabia opposed, the first ones to oppose, Muhammed ibn Abdul Wahhab when he emerged on the scene.

Also note that ISIS opposes the older Qaeda leadership because ISIS opposes the Muslim Brotherhood influence on Qaeda (which was an Egyption phenomenon that inturn obtained from Maududi of Pakistan) that mixed up with Saudi Wahhabi ideology. So ISIS basically is a purification of Qaeda from many of Muslim Brotherhood views and going to raw ideology of the early 18th century Wahhabism.