Ibn Ḥazm of Cordoba

Camilla Adang is Senior Lecturer in Arabic and Islamic Studies at Tel Aviv University. Her fields of specialization are interreligious contacts and classical Islamic thought. She has written extensively on Ibn Ḥazm and the Ẓāhirī school.Maribel Fierro is Research Professor at the Centre of Human and Social Sciences at the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC – Spain). Her research focuses on the religious and intellectual history of al-Andalus and the Islamic West, and on Islamic law. Sabine Schmidtke is Professor of Islamic Intellectual History at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ. She has published on topics ranging from intellectual history, the history of Oriental studies, and the Arabic Bible, including Martin Schreiner between Islamic Studies and “Wissenschaft des Judentums”: A Study of His Life and Work (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2024).

"Ce n’est pas un livre, ni même un ouvrage collectif, c’est une véritable encyclopédie sur Ibn Ḥazm, un des plus grands penseurs du monde musulman médiéval, qu’ont élaborée C. Adang, M. Fierro et S. Schmidtke... On l’aura compris, la qualité des articles composant cet ouvrage, leur complémentarité, la rigueur de l’édition, la diversité des thèmes abordés par les meilleurs spécialistes contemporains de l’homme, de son oeuvre, de sa pensée et de son époque font d’Ibn Ḥazm of Cordoba une somme où les étudiants trouveront un modèle historiographique, les chercheurs un outil irremplaçable et toute personne intéressée par la pensée musulmane dans son ensemble des informations passionnantes." – Pascal Buresi, in: Arabica 61/5 (2014)"This volume offers a wealth of information to help us connect the dots on the thought of a controversial and complex figure — on his context but also his motives and, most significantly, how he fits into the overall legacy of Islam." – Paul L. Heck, in: The Marginalia Review of Books, 21 October 2013

• Preface and Acknowledgements, Camilla ADANG, Maribel FIERRO, Sabine SCHMIDTKE Part One: Life and Times of Ibn ḤazmIbn Ḥazm: A Biographical Sketch, José Miguel PUERTA VILCHEZA portrait of the ʿālim as a young man: The formative years of Ibn Ḥazm, 404/1013-420/1029, Bruna SORAVIAIbn Ḥazm and the territory of Huelva: Personal and family relationships, Alejandro GARCÍA SANJUÁNIbn Ḥazm and al-Andalus, David WASSERSTEINIbn Ḥazm and history, Gabriel MARTINEZ-GROSPart Two: Legal AspectsIbn Ḥazm’s Literalism: A Critique of Islamic Legal Theory, Adam SABRAIbn Ḥazm et les condition d’aptitude pour être juge, Alfonso CARMONA GONZÁLEZIbn Ḥazm’s doctrine on rape and its impact both in Mālikī jurisprudence and in contemporary legislation regarding sexual mores, Delfina SERRANO Part Three: Ẓāhirī LinguisticsIbn Maḍāʾ al-Qurṭubī as a Ẓāhirī linguist, Kees VERSTEEGHWhich curiosity? Ibn Ḥazm’s suspicion of grammarians ,Salvador PEÑA MARTINPart Four: Art and AestheticsArt and aesthetics in the work of Ibn Ḥazm ,José Miguel PUERTA VILCHEZ Part Five: Theology, Philosophy and EthicsIbn Ḥazm’s sources on Muʿtazilism and Ashʿarism, Sabine SCHMIDTKEAristotle and Ibn Ḥazm. On logic of the Taqrīb, Rafael RAMÓN GUERREROIbn Ḥazm’s logical pedigree, Joep LAMEERIbn Ḥazm on Sins and Salvation, Christian LANGEPart Six: Interreligious PolemicsThe Testimony of Reason and the Historical Reality: Ibn Ḥazm’s Refutation of Christianity, Martin-Samuel BEHLOULLe sens de la polémique anti-biblique chez Ibn Ḥazm, Dominique URVOYIbn Ḥazm and the Jewish zindīq, Maribel FIERROPart Seven: ReceptionThe early transmission of the works of Ibn Ḥazm, Camilla ADANGRefutations of Ibn Ḥazm by Mālikī authors from al-Andalus and North-Africa, Samir KADDOURIElements of Acceptance and Rejection in Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya’s Systematic Reading of Ibn Ḥazm, Livnat HOLTZMANIbn Ḥazm selon certains savants shīʿites, Hassan ANSARIOn the use of Ibn Ḥazm’s Jamhara and Naqt in Arabic chronicles, Luis MOLINA Part Eight: BibliographyInventory of Ibn Ḥazm’s Works: Editions and translations, José Miguel PUERTA VILCHEZIbn Ḥazm – Bibliography of Secondary Sources, Leigh CHIPMANList of contributorsIndex