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>with this one paternal Hypostasis begetting through self-reflected eternal wisdom a corollary image through which God acknowledges Himself
This is not specified by the Nicene Creed, and is honestly unintelligible to me in light of it, as the action of self-reflection or self-acknowledgement is not the same as the action of begetting. It seems like you intend a separate meaning for the generation between the Son and the Father which would be unnecessary to bring up in pretty much any discussion about the coherence of the Trinity.
>Nicene Trinitarianism doesn't believe that the Hypostases of the Trinity are attributes,
The problem for Ibn Taymiyyah here is that the Son is the Logos or the Word of God and is the property through which God speaks to His creation. Hearing this, being a nominalist as the other brother pointed out, he believed this necessarily meant He was an attribute of God, and any claim to the contrary by a Christian would have been seen as ineffectual to his argument. If you told him this, I suspect he would've argued that the Word of God through which He commands creation cannot be considered as anything other than a concomitant attribute, explaining further that that which mediates is not the same as that which originates; the Logos mediating the Will of the Father with the action He intends. If it is through the Logos that the Father orders and communicates with mankind, then the Logos is either a concomitant attribute, or a separate God. It is either dependent on the existence and discretion of God or is another god through which God proper fulfills His will. This is shown by him further on in his appraisal of the Nicene Creed, where he says that nothing can be equal to an essence except another essence, believing that if the Logos is Allah He should not merely be the Logos, but that which the Logos is a concomitant attribute of (the name of Allah encompasses all His attributes and actions). This is again in consideration of the idea that the Logos is God as divine reason, which is Allah's attribute, and is included in His name, being the opinion of ahlus sunnatu al wa'l jama'ah since the revelation of the Holy Qur'an.