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Ibn Hazm (d. 1064) of Cordova was a humanist par excellence and one of the intellectual giants in Islam. He was a belleletrist, poet, historian, theologian, jurist, philosopher and polemecist who is reported to have written four hundred volumes on various disciplines. As a prolific writer, he had a great deal to say about the sciences: religious sciences, grammar and lexicography, poetry, literary criticism, logic, astronomy, astrology, medicine, alchemy, music and others. He recognized the interdependence of the sciences and advocated a broad liberal education combining the secular and the religious disciplines. Besides, he was a critic and an intellectual rebel who raised his voice on the major issues of his time attacking fearlessly the laxity and indifference of religious cholars, jurists and rulers. He was rationalist and devout religious man, who combined a reigorous scientific method with religious criteria clamoring for change and corrective measures in the approach to religious matters and insisting on individual inquiry (ijtihad) instead of the hitherto overreliance on old authorities. This fresh approach did not endear him to the secular and religious authorities, which

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Author

Anwar G. Chejne

Publisher

Kazi Publications, Incorporated

Published

1982

Language

EN

ISBN

9780935782042

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Memoir, Islam