Andalusian Muslim polymath, historian, jurist, philosopher and theologian (994–1064)
An eleventh-century Córdoban scholar who wrote 80,000 pages across theology, law, history, and philosophy — and became the strictest voice in hadith interpretation while codifying an entire school of Islamic jurisprudence that survives him by a millennium.
Ibn Hazm was born in November 994 in the Córdoban Caliphate, in what is now Spain. He emerged as a leading proponent and codifier of the Zahiri school of Islamic jurisprudence, known for its literalist approach to Islamic texts. Over his lifetime he produced a reported 400 works, totaling some 80,000 pages, though only 40 survive. The Encyclopaedia of Islam names him one of the leading thinkers of the Muslim world, and he has been called one of the fathers of comparative religion. He died on 15 August 1064, leaving behind a body of work that spans theology, law, history, and philosophy.
Sourced, dated quotes from Ibn Hazm
Compare yourself, for wealth, status and health to those lower than you. For faith, science, and virtue, compare yourself to those who are higher than you.
Sciences are like powerful drugs, which suit the strong and exhaust the weak.
We know with certainty that never could man have acquired the sciences and arts by himself guided only by his natural abilities and without the benefit of instruction.
Whoever harms his kinship and his neighbors is worse than them. Whosoever returns ill that he receives from them is like them.
Whosoever rises above things of this world, in front of which you kneel is much stronger than you.
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