Ibn Hazm of Cordoba: The Life and Works of a Controversial Thinker (Handbook of Oriental Studies) (Handbook of Oriental Studies, 103) - Hardcover

Camilla Adang

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004234241 ISBN 13: 9789004234246

Publisher: BRILL, 2012

Synopsis

This volume represents the state of the art in research on the Muslim legal scholar, theologian and man of letters Ibn azm of Cordoba (d. 456/1064), who is widely regarded as one of the most brilliant minds of Islamic Spain.

About this title

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 azm and the hir 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.

Review:

"Ce n'est pas un livre, ni même un ouvrage collectif, c'est une véritable encyclopédie sur Ibn Ḥazm, un des plus grands penseurs du monde musulman médiéval, qu'ont élaborée C. Adang, M. Fierro et S. Schmidtke... On l'aura compris, la qualité des articles composant cet ouvrage, leur complémentarité, la rigueur de l'édition, la diversité des thèmes abordés par les meilleurs spécialistes contemporains de l'homme, de son oeuvre, de sa pensée et de son époque font d'Ibn Ḥazm of Cordoba une somme où les étudiants trouveront un modèle historiographique, les chercheurs un outil irremplaçable et toute personne intéressée par la pensée musulmane dans son ensemble des informations passionnantes." - Pascal Buresi, in: Arabica 61/5 (2014)
"This volume offers a wealth of information to help us connect the dots on the thought of a controversial and complex figure -- on his context but also his motives and, most significantly, how he fits into the overall legacy of Islam." - Paul L. Heck, in: The Marginalia Review of Books, 21 October 2013

About this edition

• Publisher: BRILL
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 9004234241
• ISBN 13: 9789004234246
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 828