Ibn Ḥazm of Cordoba - The Life and Works of a Controversial Thinker

This volume represents the state of the art in research on the 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.

About the author

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 Studies and Director of the Research Unit Intellectual History of the Islamicate World at Freie Universität Berlin. She has published extensively on Islamic and Jewish intellectual history.

Product details

• Assisted by: Camilla Adang (Editor), Maribel Fierro (Editor), Sabine Schmidtke (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.12.2012
• EAN: 9789004234246
• ISBN: 978-90-04-23424-6
• No. of pages: 828
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 48 mm
• Weight: 1479 g
• Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias