Ibn Hazm
Ibn Hazm (994–1064) or Ibn-i-Hazm or Abū Muḥammad ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd ibn Ḥazm (Arabic: أبو محمد علي بن احمد بن سعيد بن حزم; also sometimes known as al-Andalusī aẓ-Ẓāhirī;[1] (November 7, 994 – August 15, 1064)[2][3][4] (456 AH) was an Andalusian polymath born in Córdoba, present-day Spain.[5]He was a leading proponent and codifier of the Zahiri school of Islamic thought, and produced a reported 400 works of which only 40 still survive, covering a range of topics such as Islamic jurisprudence, history, ethics, comparative religion, and theology, as well as The Ring of the Dove, on the art of love. The Encyclopaedia of Islam refers to him as having been one of the leading thinkers of the Muslim world, and he is widely acknowledged as the father of comparative religious studies.
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- ↑ A. R. Nykl. "Ibn Ḥazm's Treatise on Ethics". Also as Ibn Khazem by some medieval European sources. The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, Vol. 40, No. 1. (Oct., 1923), pp. 30–36
- ↑ Ibn Hazm. The Ring of the Dove: A Treatise on the Art and Practice of Arab Love. Trans. A. J. Arberry. Luzac Oriental, 1997 ISBN 1-898942-02-1
- ↑ R. Arnaldez, Ibn Ḥazm. Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Brill Online, 2013. Reference. 09 January 2013
- ↑ Joseph A. Kechichian, A mind of his own. Gulf News: 21:30 December 20, 2012.
- ↑ Encyclopædia Britannica. ""Ibn Hazm." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2006. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Oct 23. 2006"
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