biography
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Ibn Hazm, Abu Muhammad 'Ali ibn Muhammad Ibn Sa'id
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pronunciation:
[ibin azim]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (994–1064)
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| biography:
| By common consent ‘the greatest scholar and the most original genius of Moslem Spain’, born in Córdoba, Spain. By the age of 30 he had become prime minister to Abdurrahman V (1023–4), but on the fall of the Ummayads, he retired from public life. An adherent of the Zahirite theological sect, he attacked the most venerable religious authorities of Islam, who virtually ‘excommunicated’ him and ordered his writings to be burnt. His most valuable work , Kitab al-milal wa 'n-nihal (The Book of Religions and Sects), has survived. In earlier life he wrote Tawq al-Hamama (The Ring of the Dove), an elegant prose dissertation on aspects of profane love interspersed with mediocre verses. |
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