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).

Preface and Acknowledgements, Camilla ADANG, Maribel FIERRO, Sabine SCHMIDTKE

Part One: Life and Times of Ibn Ḥazm
Ibn Ḥazm: A Biographical Sketch, José Miguel PUERTA VILCHEZ
A portrait of the ʿālim as a young man: The formative years of Ibn Ḥazm, 404/1013-420/1029, Bruna SORAVIA
Ibn Ḥazm and the territory of Huelva: Personal and family relationships, Alejandro GARCÍA SANJUÁN
Ibn Ḥazm and al-Andalus, David WASSERSTEIN
Ibn Ḥazm and history, Gabriel MARTINEZ-GROS

Part Two: Legal Aspects
Ibn Ḥazm’s Literalism: A Critique of Islamic Legal Theory, Adam SABRA
Ibn Ḥazm et les condition d’aptitude pour être juge, Alfonso CARMONA GONZÁLEZ
Ibn Ḥazm’s doctrine on rape and its impact both in Mālikī jurisprudence and in contemporary legislation regarding sexual mores, Delfina SERRANO

Part Three: Ẓāhirī Linguistics
Ibn Maḍāʾ al-Qurṭubī as a Ẓāhirī linguist, Kees VERSTEEGH
Which curiosity? Ibn Ḥazm’s suspicion of grammarians ,Salvador PEÑA MARTIN

Part Four: Art and Aesthetics
Art and aesthetics in the work of Ibn Ḥazm ,José Miguel PUERTA VILCHEZ

Part Five: Theology, Philosophy and Ethics
Ibn Ḥazm’s sources on Muʿtazilism and Ashʿarism, Sabine SCHMIDTKE
Aristotle and Ibn Ḥazm. On logic of the Taqrīb, Rafael RAMÓN GUERRERO
Ibn Ḥazm’s logical pedigree, Joep LAMEER
Ibn Ḥazm on Sins and Salvation, Christian LANGE

Part Six: Interreligious Polemics
The Testimony of Reason and the Historical Reality: Ibn Ḥazm’s Refutation of Christianity, Martin-Samuel BEHLOUL
Le sens de la polémique anti-biblique chez Ibn Ḥazm, Dominique URVOY
Ibn Ḥazm and the Jewish zindīq, Maribel FIERRO

Part Seven: Reception
The early transmission of the works of Ibn Ḥazm, Camilla ADANG
Refutations of Ibn Ḥazm by Mālikī authors from al-Andalus and North-Africa, Samir KADDOURI
Elements of Acceptance and Rejection in Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya’s Systematic Reading of Ibn Ḥazm, Livnat HOLTZMAN
Ibn Ḥazm selon certains savants shīʿites, Hassan ANSARI
On the use of Ibn Ḥazm’s Jamhara and Naqt in Arabic chronicles, Luis MOLINA

Part Eight: Bibliography
Inventory of Ibn Ḥazm’s Works: Editions and translations, José Miguel PUERTA VILCHEZ
Ibn Ḥazm – Bibliography of Secondary Sources, Leigh CHIPMAN

List of contributors
Index