Philosophical Matters in the Ibn Hazm as a Pioneer of Zahiriyya

Abstract

İbn Hazm as an outstanding representative of Islamic theological school of zahiriyya also has philosophical views and approaches in his system. From this point, it will be very interesting to deal with his ideas. In the border of this article we will shed lights on his views about, philosophy, his critics for Kindi about the naming God as First cause, ibn Hazm’s classification of sciences and his views on soul, intellect, ethics, love will be explained.Logic found itself place in the Islamic sciences due to his instruction very before Al Ghazali. Before Kant he made explanations about the principle of apriori .He hinted tabula Rasa before John Locke. As a result, his works constitutes one of the original and important monuments of Muslim thought