Ibn Hazm

Imam
Ibn Hazm
ٱبْن حَزْم
A monument of Ibn Hazm standing in Córdoba, Spain
Title
Personal
Born7 November 994 CE (384 AH)
Córdoba, Córdoban Caliphate
Died15 August 1064 CE (456 AH)[3][4][5]
Montíjar, near Huelva, Taifa of Seville
ReligionIslam
EraIslamic Golden Age
RegionAl-Andalus
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceZahiri
CreedIndependent literalist[2]
Main interest(s)
Notable work(s)
Occupation
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
Muslim leader
Influenced by
Influenced

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,[4] 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.[4][9]

  1. ^ Al-Dhahabi. Tadhkirah al-Huffaz. Vol. 3. p. 227.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Arberry was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ a b c R. Arnaldez, Ibn Ḥazm. Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Brill Online, 2013. Reference. 9 January 2013
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference hadithsunnah was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  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 December 20, 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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