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'''Abū Muḥammad ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd ibn Ḥazm''' ({{lang-ar|أبو محمد علي بن أحمد بن سعيد بن حزم}}; also sometimes known as al-Andalusī aẓ-Ẓāhirī;<ref>A. R. Nykl. "[https://www.jstor.org/stable/528141 Ibn Ḥazm's Treatise on Ethics]". Also as Ibn Khazem by some medieval European sources. ''The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures'', Vol. 40, No. 1. (Oct. 1923), pp. 30–36.</ref> 7 November 994&nbsp;– 15 August 1064<ref name="Arberry">Ibn Hazm. ''[http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/hazm/dove/preface.html The Ring of the Dove: A Treatise on the Art and Practice of Arab Love]'' (Preface). Trans. A. J. Arberry. Luzac Oriental, 1997 {{ISBN|1-898942-02-1}}</ref><ref name=brill/><ref name=gulf>Joseph A. Kechichian, [http://gulfnews.com/about-gulf-news/al-nisr-portfolio/weekend-review/a-mind-of-his-own-1.1121412 A mind of his own]. [[Gulf News]]: 21:30 December 20, 2012.</ref> [456 AH<ref name="hadithsunnah">{{cite web |url=http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/scienceofhadith/asb2.html |title=USC-MSA Compendium of Muslim Texts |publisher=Usc.edu |access-date=12 September 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081128185832/http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/scienceofhadith/asb2.html |archive-date=28 November 2008 }}</ref>]) was an [[Al-Andalus|Andalusian]] [[Muslim]] [[polymath]], [[historian]], [[muhaddith]], [[jurist]], [[philosopher]], and [[theologian]], born in the [[Caliphate of Córdoba]], present-day [[Spain]].<ref name="EB2">{{cite encyclopedia|last=Fiegenbaum |first= J.W. |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ibn-Hazm |title=Ibn Ḥazm |encyclopedia= Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=3 March 2018}}</ref> Described as one of the strictest [[hadith]] interpreters, Ibn Hazm was a leading proponent and codifier of the [[Zahiri]] [[madhab|school of Islamic thought]]<ref name="brill" /> and produced a reported 400 works, of which only 40 still survive.<ref name=gulf/><ref name="EB2"/> In all, his written works amounted to some 80 ,000 pages.<ref>Ibrahim Kalin, Salim Ayduz (ed.), ''The Oxford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Science, and Technology in Islam'', Volume 1, p. 328</ref> Described as one of the fathers of comparative religion, the ''[[Encyclopaedia of Islam]]'' refers to him as having been one of the leading thinkers of the [[Muslim world]].<ref name=brill/><ref>''Islamic Desk Reference'', pg. 150. Ed. E. J. Van Donzel. Leiden: Brill Publishers, 1994. {{ISBN|9789004097384}}</ref>