Ibn Hazm

Ibn Hazm

Abū Muḥammad ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd ibn Ḥazm (Arabic: أبو محمد علي بن احمد بن سعيد بن حزم‎; also sometimes known as al-Andalusī aẓ-Ẓāhirī;[5] November 7, 994 – August 15, 1064[1][2][6] (456 AH[3]) was an Andalusian polymath born in Córdoba, present-day Spain.[7] He was a leading proponent and codifier of the Zahiri school of Islamic thought,[2] and produced a reported 400 works of which only 40 still survive, covering a range of topics such as Islamic jurisprudence, history, ethics, comparative religion, and theology, as well as The Ring of the Dove, on the art of love.[6][7] The Encyclopaedia of Islam refers to him as having been one of the leading thinkers of the Muslim world,[2][8] and he is widely acknowledged as the father of comparative religious studies.