Ibn Hazm of Cordoba: The Life and Works of a Controversial Thinker

826 Pages·2012·4.98 MB·English

by  C Adang

Ibn Ḥazm of Cordoba
Handbook of Oriental Studies
Handbuch der Orientalistik
Section 1, The Near and Middle East
Edited by
Maribel Fierro (Madrid)
M. Şükrü-Hanioğlu (Princeton)
Kees Versteegh (Nijmegen)
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Ibn Ḥazm of Cordoba
The Life and Works of a Controversial Thinker
Edited by
Camilla Adang
Maribel Fierro
Sabine Schmidtke
LEIdEN • bOSTON
2013
Cover illustration: Photographer: Ignacio Pérez-Alcalde.
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Ibn Hazm of Cordoba : the life and works of a controversial thinker / edited by Camilla Adang, Maribel
Fierro, Sabine Schmidtke.
  p. cm. — (Handbook of Oriental studies. Section 1, the Near and Middle East ; v. 103)
 Includes bibliographical references and index.
 ISbN 978-90-04-23424-6 (hardback : alk. paper)—ISbN 978-90-04-24310-1 (ebooks) 1. Ibn Hazm, ‘Ali
ibn Ahmad, 994-1064. 2. Islamic philosophy—History. I. Adang, Camilla. II. Fierro, Ma. Isabel (María
Isabel) III. Schmidtke, Sabine.
 b753.I34I16 2013
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CONTENTS
List of Illustrations  ........................................................................................... ix
Preface and Acknowledgements  ................................................................. xi
The Editors
Map of al-Andalus  ........................................................................................... xiii
List of Contributors  ......................................................................................... xv
PART I
LIFE ANd TIMES OF IbN ḤAZM
Abū Muḥammad ʿAlī Ibn Ḥazm: A biographical Sketch  ..................... 3
José Miguel Puerta Vílchez
A Portrait of the ʿālim as a Young Man: The Formative Years of
Ibn Ḥazm, 404/1013–420/1029 .................................................................. 25
Bruna Soravia
Ibn Ḥazm and the Territory of Huelva: Personal and Family
Relationships  ................................................................................................ 51
Alejandro García Sanjuán
Ibn Ḥazm and al-Andalus  ............................................................................. 69
David J. Wasserstein
Ibn Ḥazm on History: A Few Remarks  ..................................................... 87
Gabriel Martinez-Gros
PART II
LEGAL ASPECTS
Ibn Ḥazm’s Literalism: A Critique of Islamic Legal Theory ................ 97
Adam Sabra
La doctrine sur l’exercice de la justice : Un exemple du désaccord
entre Ibn Ḥazm et les mālikites  ............................................................. 161
Alfonso Carmona González
vi contents
Claim (daʿwā) or Complaint (Shakwā)? Ibn Ḥazm’s and Qāḍī
ʿIyāḍ’s doctrines on Accusations of Rape  ........................................... 179
Delfina Serrano
PART III
ẒĀHIRĪ LINGUISTICS
Ibn Maḍāʾ as a Ẓāhirī Grammarian  ............................................................ 207
Kees Versteegh
Which Curiosity? Ibn Ḥazm’s Suspicion of Grammarians  .................. 233
Salvador Peña
PART IV
ART ANd AESTHETICS
Art and Aesthetics in the Work of Ibn Ḥazm of Cordoba  .................. 253
José Miguel Puerta Vílchez
PART V
THEOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY ANd ETHICS
Ibn Ḥazm’s Sources on Ashʿarism and Muʿtazilism  .............................. 375
Sabine Schmidtke
Aristotle and Ibn Ḥazm. On the Logic of the Taqrīb  ............................ 403
Rafael Ramón Guerrero
Ibn Ḥazm’s Logical Pedigree  ........................................................................ 417
Joep Lameer
Ibn Ḥazm on Sins and Salvation  ................................................................. 429
Christian Lange
contents vii
PART VI
INTERRELIGIOUS POLEMICS
The Testimony of Reason and the Historical Reality: Ibn Ḥazm’s
Refutation of Christianity  ......................................................................... 457
Martin-Samuel Behloul
Le sens de la polémique anti-biblique chez Ibn Ḥazm  ....................... 485
Dominique Urvoy
Ibn Ḥazm and the Jewish zindīq  ................................................................. 497
Maribel Fierro
PART VII
RECEPTION
Shurayḥ al-Ruʿaynī and the Transmission of the Works of Ibn
Ḥazm  ............................................................................................................... 513
Camilla Adang
Refutations of Ibn Ḥazm by Mālikī Authors from al-Andalus and
North-Africa  .................................................................................................. 539
Samir Kaddouri
Elements of Acceptance and Rejection in Ibn Qayyim
al-Jawziyya’s Systematic Reading of Ibn Ḥazm  ................................. 601
Livnat Holtzman
Ibn Ḥazm selon certains savants shīʿites  .................................................. 645
Hassan Ansari
The Reception of Ibn Ḥazm in Arabic Chronicles  ................................ 663
Luis Molina
viii contents
PART VIII
bIbLIOGRAPHY
Inventory of Ibn Ḥazm’s Works  .................................................................. 683
José Miguel Puerta Vílchez
Ibn Ḥazm—bibliography of Secondary Sources  .................................... 761
Leigh Chipman
Index of Names  ................................................................................................. 789
Index of Groups  ................................................................................................ 801
Index of Places  .................................................................................................. 803
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Map 1. al-Andalus during the lifetime of Ibn Hazm  ............................ xiii
Alejandro García-Sanjuán
Figure 1. City of Huelva (Southwestern Spain)  ...................................... 66
Figure 2. Present location of Hotel Spa Casa Montija (possibly
old Munt Lisham), near Huelva  ............................................................. 67
Joep Lameer
Figure 1. Assessment of the logical pedigree claimed by Ibn
Ḥazm  ............................................................................................................... 426
Christian Lange
Figure 1. Ibn Ḥazm’s moral topography of the hereafter  ................... 446