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Federico Lorenzo Ramaioli
Andalusian thinker Ibn Ḥazm’s Ṭawq al-ḥamāma (Dove’s Necklace) is a refined treatise about love in the Muslim world, describing in a poetic, literary and philosophical way the various manifestations and dynamics of love, and enriched by personal reminiscences, anecdotes and poems. Contrarily to the Western civilization, Islam being a nomocentric phenomenon in which the law permeates the life of the believer in all of its dimensions, it is possible to detect traces of juridical reasoning even in a literary treatise about love. This is even truer if we consider that Ibn Ḥazm is also one of the most celebrated Andalusian jurists of his times, belonging to the zahirite legal and philosophical current. In this cultural context, this article explores the author’s legal methodology applied to love, which emerges throughout the chapters of the treatise.
