Ibn Hazm

Monument of Ibn Hazm in Puerta de Sevilla, Cordoba

"The dove's collar", one of the most famous works by Ibn Hazm.
(Ms. in Leiden University Library )

Abū Muhammad ʿAlī ibn Ahmad Ibn Hazm az-Zāhirī al-Andalusī ( Arabic أبو محمد علي بن أحمد ابن حزم الظاهري الأندلسي, DMG Abū Muḥammad ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad Ibn Ḥazm aẓ-Ẓāhirī al-Andalusī ; born November 7, 994 in Cordoba ; died August 16, 1064 on the Casa Montija estate near Niebla ) was an Arab polymath in the Caliphate of Cordoba . He was the most important representative of the Zahirite school of law, which no longer exists today .

Life

Ibn Hazm was born in Córdoba in 994. His family was probably of Visigothic descent and came from Huelva . Since his father was a vizier under Almansor , he had access to the courtly circles in Cordoba in his first years. Due to his extensive training, he soon rose to become an important universal scholar who was well versed in theology , philosophy and poetry.

But since he was a follower of the Muslim school of law of the Zahirites , he was banned from teaching in the Great Mosque and was later expelled again and again. His works were even burned in Seville . Another reason for his repeated exile was his allegedly pro- umayyad convictions, which were suspect in the Taifa kingdoms . After he had temporarily been a vizier under the Umayyad caliph Abd ar-Rahman V (1023-1024), he withdrew from politics.

Works

• Ṭauq al-ḥamāma fī l-ulfa wa-l-ullāf ("The dove's collar over love and lovers"). The work, which is regarded as part of world literature, was translated into German by Max Weisweiler in 1941 and provided with an afterword (new edition Leipzig: Reclam 1990, ISBN 3-379-00589-4 ).
• Ḥiǧǧat al-wadāʿ , treatise on the farewell pilgrimage of the Prophet (ed. ʿAbd-al-Ḥaqq Ibn-Mulāḥiqī al-Turkmānī, Beirut 2008).
• Kitāb al-Muḥallā bi-l-āṯār fī šarḥ al-muǧallā bi-l-iqtiṣār , systematic presentation of Islamic law. The modern print edition (Cairo 1347h-1352h = 1928–1933) comprises 11 volumes. Download as zip file In this work, Ibn Hazm took the view that only such an idscha would be acceptable, that of the generation of the Prophet's companions ʿAlī ibn Abī Tālib ʿAbdallāh ibn Masʿūd , Anas ibn Mālik , ʿAbdallāh ibn ʿAbbās and the companions in Syria of the second generation of Muslims Ibn Sīrīn and Jābir ibn Zaid .
• Al-Farq baina al-firaq ("The separation between the religious communities"). In this work he subjected Judaism , Christianity and Zoroastrianism as well as the main Islamic sects to a critical examination in order to refute them.

literature

• Arnold Hottinger : The Moors. Arabic culture in Spain. Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich, 1995. ISBN 3-7705-3075-6
• Camilla Adang, Maribel Fierro, Sabine Schmidtke (Eds.): Ibn Ḥazm of Cordoba: The Life and Works of a Controversial Thinker (in the Handbuch der Orientalistik I.103). ' Suffering u. a .: Brill 2013. ISBN 978-90-04-23424-6
• Ghulam Haider Aasi: Muslim Understanding of Other Religions: A Study of Ibn Ḥazm's Kitāb al-Faṣl fi al-Milal wa al- Ahwāʾ wa al-Niḥal. New Delhi 2004, ISBN 81-7435-359-3

Web links

Commons : Ibn Hazm  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Ibn Hazm in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Ibn Hazm in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute in Berlin
• bibliography
• Polemics (Muslim-Jewish) , Camilla Adang, Sabine Schmidtke: Andalusi Ibn Ḥazm was known for being rather ruthless in leading a polemic against people with different opinions, even if they were Muslims. (Aus dem Engl.) P. 6, in "Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World", Ed. Norman A. Stillman

Individual evidence

1. ↑ R. Arnaldez, Ibn Ḥazm. Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Brill Online, 2013. Reference. 09 January 2013
2. ↑ Bernd Roeck: The morning of the world . 1st edition. CH Beck, 2017, ISBN 978-3-406-69876-7 , pp. 271 .
3. ↑ See his Kitāb al-Muḥallā . 1928-1933, Vol. V, p. 127.