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9 February
Controversial Figures in Islamic History
colloquium & book launch
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To celebrate this memorable 400th anniversary of the Chair of Arabic Language and Culture, Leiden University and Brill are happy to invite you to spend a day with 'Controversial Figures in Islamic History' on Saturday 9 February 2013
The day will start off with a colloquium that will discuss 4 controversial figures in the history of Islam, followed by the launch of Ibn Hazm of Cordoba: The Life and Works of a Controversial Thinker, a new volume in Brill’s Series Handbook of Oriental Studies. The full programme and location details are listed below. |
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About 'Ibn Hazm of Cordoba'
'Ibn Hazm of Cordoba: The Life and Works of a Controversial Thinker'
Edited by Camilla Adang, Tel Aviv University, Maribel Fierro, CSIC, Madrid and Sabine Schmidtke, Freie Universität Berlin
Brill, 2012
This volume (no 103 in the 'Handbook of Oriental Studies' serries represents the state of the art in research on the controversial Muslim legal scholar, theologian and man of letters Ibn Ḥazm of Cordoba (d. 456/1064), who is widely regarded as one of the most brilliant minds of Islamic Spain. Remembered mostly for his charming treatise on love, he was first and foremost a fierce polemicist who was much criticized for his idiosyncratic views and his abrasive language. Insisting that the sacred sources of Islam are to be understood in their outward sense and that it is only the Prophet Muḥammad whose example may be followed, Ibn Ḥazm alienated himself from his peers. As a result, his books were burned and he was forced to withdraw from public life.
Edited by Camilla Adang, Tel Aviv University, Maribel Fierro, CSIC, Madrid and Sabine Schmidtke, Freie Universität Berlin
Brill, 2012
This volume (no 103 in the 'Handbook of Oriental Studies' serries represents the state of the art in research on the controversial Muslim legal scholar, theologian and man of letters Ibn Ḥazm of Cordoba (d. 456/1064), who is widely regarded as one of the most brilliant minds of Islamic Spain. Remembered mostly for his charming treatise on love, he was first and foremost a fierce polemicist who was much criticized for his idiosyncratic views and his abrasive language. Insisting that the sacred sources of Islam are to be understood in their outward sense and that it is only the Prophet Muḥammad whose example may be followed, Ibn Ḥazm alienated himself from his peers. As a result, his books were burned and he was forced to withdraw from public life.
