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Neither a comprehensive reference work nor yet an ordinary collection of conference papers, this massive volume is an engaging read and a perfect starting point for anyone venturing into the study of Ibn Ḥazm. Its value stems in part from the editors’ decision to include not only the papers from a 2008 workshop in Istanbul but also several previously published pieces that were translated and updated for this volume. Five major articles by José Miguel Puerta Vílchez, Adam Sabra, and Samir Kaddouri, which had not received sufficient attention in English-language scholarship, form the backbone of the book; the shorter papers build upon them, offering more tentative and focused insights in implicit dialogue with that prior scholarship and with one another. To call the papers uneven would miss the point; they have different aims and origins, and they serve complementary purposes in this magnificent collection. The book’s topical arrangement – life and times, law, linguistics, aesthetics, logic and theology, polemics, and reception history – gives it the appearance of a reference work, in keeping with the aims of Brill’s Handbooks of Oriental Studies, but it cannot really function as such for several reasons: it lacks a subject index; the
Islamic Law and Society – Brill
Published: Sep 22, 2014
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