Ibn e Hazam and Study of 'Zahiri' School of Thought

ابن حزم اور فقہ ظاہری کا مطالعہ

Abstract

Abu Muhammad Ali ibn Hazm also known as al-Andalusi az.Zahiri. He was a Muslim theologian, writer, jurist, historian and philosopher born in cordoba. Whose most important work was a book on comparative religious history. He was a leading proponent of the Zahiri school of Islamic thought (madhab), which argued that people are bound to obey only the law of God, in its zahir or literal sense, without restrictions, additions, or modifications. He denied thelegitimacy of legal rulings based upon qiyas (analogy), principles of personal evaluation, or the consensus of a community of scholars.