Ibn Hazm

This entry briefly examines the life and scholarly works of Ibn Hazm, a prominent thinker and jurist in Islamic scholarship, as well as his perspectives and approaches to Islamic economics. Even though he is not well known for his contributions to the literature of Islamic economics and finance, Ibn Hazm is regarded as a remarkable figure due to his distinct views on how to use agricultural lands, a subject in which he approximates a socialist genre. Such a viewpoint is especially significant because the majority of Islamic finance and economics scholarship appears to agree with the tenets and precepts of the liberal economic model on a variety of levels.