ABSTRACT
In the twentieth century, through extensive translations of their works into European languages, both Ibn Hazm and Ibn Shuhayd gained new admirers among scholars in the West. The chapter describes about Ibn Hazm in two courses. They both focus more on writing and class discussion as tools for reflective engagement with the subject matter than introductory or gateway courses, but they do not ask the students to produce original research, as graduate-level seminars would. The first of these courses is on the Arab/Islamic ethical tradition and uses the work of Ibn Hazm as a philosopher and theologian to explore some of the later trends in the development of a truly Islamic ethical tradition. Ibn Hazm had been in Hishām al-Mu'tadd's entourage, probably one of his main political advisors, and himself barely escaped with his life to the east, finally resurfacing on the island of Majorca, where he established himself as a philosopher and religious scholar of some note.
