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Biography of Abu Muhammad Ali ibn Hazm
Name: Abu Muhammad Ali ibn Hazm
Birth Date: 994
Death Date: 1064
Place of Birth: Cordova, Spain
Nationality: Spanish
Gender: Male
Occupations: theologian, philosopher, jurist
Abu Muhammad Ali ibn Hazm
Abu Muhammad Ali ibn Hazm (994-1064) was a Spanish-born Arab theologian, philosopher, and jurist whose most important work was a book on comparative religious history.Ibn Hazm was born in Cordova. His father, who was chief minister at the Umayyad court, died when Ibn Hazm was 18 years old, during the violent political upheavals of the time. After a careful education in the usual legal and literary style of the time, Ibn Hazm entered active politics himself, being at various times vizier to reigning members of the Umayyad house, a fugitive in neighboring Andalusian statelets, and a political prisoner.At the age of 32 Ibn Hazm finally renounced political life and devoted himself wholeheartedly to scholarship, but his outspokenness in legal writings which attacked the jurists of the dominant Maliki rite led to efforts to silence him. The latter half of his life seems to have been spent on his family estates, writing …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…Hazm and awareness of the historical evolution of each of these religions. The section on Islam is chiefly devoted to the sectarian movements and philosophically dissident schools of thought. Second only in importance to his work on comparative religion is the Ring of the Dove, a treatise on love in its psychological and ethical complexities. Further Reading The translation by A. J. Arberry of The Ring of the Dove: A Treatise on the Art and Practice of Arab Love (1953) and that by Israel Friedlaender of The Heterodoxies of the Shiites in the Presentation of Ibn Hazm (1909) are almost the only works by Ibn Hazm in English. They both have material about the author. Ibn Hazm is discussed at length in De Lacy O'Leary, Arabic Thought and Its Place in History (1922; rev. ed. 1939). See also Philip K. Hitti, History of the Arabs: From the Earliest Times to the Present (1937; 10th ed. 1970).
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