Ibn Hazm "in full" "Abū Muḥammad ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd ibn Ḥazm" (Arabic :أبو محمد علي بن احمد بن سعيد بن حزم) - sometimes with "al-Andalusī aẓ-Ẓāhirī" as well was an Andalusian-Arab philosopher, litterateur, historian, jurist and theologian born in Córdoba, present day Spain. Wikipedia
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Ibn Hazm was a prolific writer on many issues. He also wrote on/against the Bible and the Christian faith. He was one of the first Muslims to develop the theory of Bible corruption as working hypothesis for his attacks on the Bible, see the articles in answering-islam.org/Index/H/hazm.html
An example of Ibn Hazm's extreme positions is his declaration that any type of analogy ( qiyas ), or imitation ( taqlid ), or legislative opinion ( ra'y ) was outside the pale of Islam, a position in which he contravened the totality of the scholars of Ah www.sunnah.org/history/Innovators/ibn_hazm.htm