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) VOLUME 103 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/ho1 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. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data 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. 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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