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Some hitherto neglected biblical material in the work of Ibn Hazm

Some hitherto neglected biblical material in the work of Ibn Hazm C Al-Masaq. S (1992): M-2& Articles SOME HITHERTO NEGLECTED BIBLICAL MATERIAL IN THE WORK OF IBN HAZM Camilla Adang Katholieke Universiteit, Nijmegen Introductio n In 1934, Miguel Asfn Palacios published an article describing the contents of a series of tracts by the Andalusian Muslim writer Ibn Hazrn (d. 45671064) that had sometime earlier been discovered in Istanbul by Helmut Ritter.1 One o f the sixteen tracts making up the collection is Al-Usūl wa l-Fur&ï Although the title suggests that it deals with legal doctrine, it is in fact almost exclusively concerned with issues of dogma, and might be described as a primitive version of what is arguably Ibn Hazm's most important work: KitSb al-Fifal fí I-Milal wa I-Ahwá" wa 1-Niļal? To my knowledge, Al- U$Qt wa l-FunF has been entirely overlooked by scholars interested in Ibn Hazm's biblical criticism and polemic against Judaism.4 This is not, perhaps, surprising, since attention was mainly focused on the "Refutation of Ibn al-Naghrïla", contained in the same collection.^ Scholars may furthermore have got the impression from Asfn's article that there was little in Al-Usül wa I-Furü0 that was not already known from KltSb ah FisaL Ye t the work constitutes a valuable additional http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean Taylor & Francis

Some hitherto neglected biblical material in the work of Ibn Hazm

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C Al-Masaq. S (1992): M-2& Articles SOME HITHERTO NEGLECTED BIBLICAL MATERIAL IN THE WORK OF IBN HAZM Camilla Adang Katholieke Universiteit, Nijmegen Introductio n In 1934, Miguel Asfn Palacios published an article describing the contents of a series of tracts by the Andalusian Muslim writer Ibn Hazrn (d. 45671064) that had sometime earlier been discovered in Istanbul by Helmut Ritter.1 One o f the sixteen tracts making up the collection is Al-Usūl wa l-Fur&ï Although the...
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C Al-Masaq. S (1992): M-2& Articles SOME HITHERTO NEGLECTED BIBLICAL MATERIAL IN THE WORK OF IBN HAZM Camilla Adang Katholieke Universiteit, Nijmegen Introductio n In 1934, Miguel Asfn Palacios published an article describing the contents of a series of tracts by the Andalusian Muslim writer Ibn Hazrn (d. 45671064) that had sometime earlier been discovered in Istanbul by Helmut Ritter.1 One o f the sixteen tracts making up the collection is Al-Usūl wa l-Fur&ï Although the title suggests that it deals with legal doctrine, it is in fact almost exclusively concerned with issues of dogma, and might be described as a primitive version of what is arguably Ibn Hazm's most important work: KitSb al-Fifal fí I-Milal wa I-Ahwá" wa 1-Niļal? To my knowledge, Al- U$Qt wa l-FunF has been entirely overlooked by scholars interested in Ibn Hazm's biblical criticism and polemic against Judaism.4 This is not, perhaps, surprising, since attention was mainly focused on the "Refutation of Ibn al-Naghrïla", contained in the same collection.^ Scholars may furthermore have got the impression from Asfn's article that there was little in Al-Usül wa I-Furü0 that was not already known from KltSb ah FisaL Ye t the work constitutes a valuable additional

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