Ibn Hazm

Ibn Hazm
ٱبْن حَزْم
A statue of Ibn Hazm standing in Córdoba, Spain
Title
  • Imam
  • Allamah
  • Hafiz
  • Muhaddith
  • Faqih
  • Mujtahid
  • Ocean of Knowledge
  • Possessor of Sciences and Knowledge[1]
Personal life
Born7 November 994 CE (384 AH)
Córdoba, Córdoban Caliphate
Died15 August 1064 CE (456 AH)[2][3][4]
Montíjar, near Huelva, Taifa of Seville
EraIslamic Golden Age
RegionAl-Andalus
Main interest(s)
  • Jurisprudence
  • hadith
  • philosophy
Notable work(s)
  • Al-Fisal fi al-Milal wa-l-Nihal
  • al-Muhalla
  • al-Ihkam fi Usul al-Ahkam
  • Tawq al-Hamama
Occupation
Religious life
ReligionIslam
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceZahiri
CreedAthari or Independent[5]
Muslim leader
Influenced by
    • Dawud al-Zahiri
    • Muhammad ibn Dawud al-Zahiri
    • Ibn al-Mughallis
    • Ibn Kullab
    • Epicurus
    • Prodicus
Influenced
    • Followers of the Zahiri school
    • Ibn Khaldun
    • Ibn Taymiyya
    • Ibn Tumart
    • al-Shawkani
    • Rashid Rida
    • al-Albani
    • Muhammad Asad
    • Muqbil ibn Hadi al-Wadi'i
Arabic name
Personal
(Ism)
ʿAlī
عَلِيّ
Patronymic
(Nasab)
Ibn Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd ibn Ḥazm
ٱبْن أَحْمَد بْن سَعِيد بْن حَزْم
Teknonymic
(Kunya)
Abū Muḥammad
أَبُو مُحَمَّد
Toponymic
(Nisba)
Al-Andalusī
ٱلْأَنْدَلُسِيّ

Ibn Hazm[a] (Arabic: ابن حزم, romanized: Ibn Ḥazm; November 994 – 15 August 1064) was an Andalusian Muslim polymath, historian, traditionist, jurist, philosopher, and theologian, born in the Córdoban Caliphate, present-day Spain.[6] Described as one of the strictest hadith interpreters, Ibn Hazm was a leading proponent and codifier of the Zahiri school of Islamic jurisprudence,[3] and produced a reported 400 works, of which only 40 still survive.[7][6]

In all, his written works amounted to some 80,000 pages.[8] Also described as one of the fathers of comparative religion, the Encyclopaedia of Islam refers to him as having been one of the leading thinkers of the Muslim world.[3][9]

  1. ^ Al-Dhahabi. Tadhkirah al-Huffaz. Vol. 3. p. 227.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Arberry was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ a b c R. Arnaldez, Ibn Ḥazm. Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Brill Online, 2013. Reference. 9 January 2013
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference hadithsunnah was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Schmidtke, Sabine; Abrahamov, Binyamim (2014). "Scripturalist and Traditionalist Theology". The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology. New York, United States of America: Oxford University Press. pp. 265–270. ISBN 978-0-19-969670-3.
  6. ^ a b Fiegenbaum, J.W. "Ibn Ḥazm". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
  7. ^ Joseph A. Kechichian, A mind of his own. Gulf News: 21:30 20 December 2012.
  8. ^ Ibrahim Kalin, Salim Ayduz (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Science, and Technology in Islam, Volume 1, p. 328
  9. ^ Islamic Desk Reference, pg. 150. Ed. E. J. Van Donzel. Leiden: Brill Publishers, 1994. ISBN 9789004097384


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