Ibn Ḥazm of Cordoba : the life and works of a controversial thinker /

Ibn Ḥazm of Cordoba : the life and works of a controversial thinker /

This volume represents the state of the art in research on the controversial Muslim legal scholar, theologian and man of letters Ibn Ḥazm of Cordoba (d. 456/1064), who is widely regarded as one of the most brilliant minds of Islamic Spain. Remembered mostly for his charming treatise on love, he was...

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Other Authors: Adang, Camilla., Fierro, Ma. Isabel, Schmidtke, Sabine.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East 103.
Brill's Companions to Middle East and Islamic Studies Online I, ISBN: 9789004389243.

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Ibn Ḥazm, ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad, > 994-1064.
Islamic philosophy > History.

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Call Number: B753.I34 I16 2013

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Summary:This volume represents the state of the art in research on the controversial Muslim legal scholar, theologian and man of letters Ibn Ḥazm of Cordoba (d. 456/1064), who is widely regarded as one of the most brilliant minds of Islamic Spain. Remembered mostly for his charming treatise on love, he was first and foremost a fierce polemicist who was much criticized for his idiosyncratic views and his abrasive language. Insisting that the sacred sources of Islam are to be understood in their outward sense and that it is only the Prophet Muḥammad whose example may be followed, Ibn Ḥazm alienated himself from his peers. As a result, his books were burned and he was forced to withdraw from public life. Contributors are: Camilla Adang, Hassan Ansari, Samuel-Martin Behloul, Alfonso Carmona, Leigh Chipman, Maribel Fierro, Alejandro García Sanjuán, Livnat Holtzman, Samir Kaddouri, Joep Lameer, Christian Lange, Gabriel Martinez Gros, Luis Molina, Salvador Peña, Jose Miguel Puerta Vilchez, Rafael Ramón Guerrero, Adam Sabra, Sabine Schmidtke, Delfina Serrano, Bruna Soravia, Dominique Urvoy, Kees Versteegh and David Wasserstein.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxi, 804 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:9789004243101
ISSN:0169-9423 ;
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