The Jurisprudence of Coexistence According to Ibn Hazm

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Secretary-General of the Academy of the Arabic Language, and Professor at the Faculty of Dar Al Uloom, Cairo University.

Abstract

Ibn Hazm is Abu Muhammad Ali bin Ahmed bin Saeed bin Hazm who was born on the last day of the month of Ramadan in the year three hundred and eighty-four (= 944 AD).
He and his parents lived in Cordoba, the metropolis of Andalusia, and attained great prestige there, according to Sa’id. His father was one of the great ministers of al-Mansur Muhammad ibn Abi Amer, then his son after him, and his son al-Faqih was a minister to Abd al-Rahman al-Mustazhar Billah ibn Hisham.
He was bitten by politics which led to his imprisonment, therefore he rejected it, and accepted the reading of sciences and the restriction of traces and Sunnahs. - In Andalusia, before him, and compiled many works of honorable purpose.
many arts indicate a comprehensive, deep culture of various kinds, combining jurisprudence, origins, hadith, history, genealogy, religion, bees, poetry, literature, grammar, language, and responding to opponents in jurisprudence, belief, and religions. All this did not prevent him from writing in love, so he wrote his book entitled: Tawq al-Hamamah.” His books, according to his contemporaries, amounted to about four hundred volumes, comprising close to eighty thousand folios. ewho is a well-established writer in Islam”.

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