That the stars are celestial bodies with no mind or soul. They neither know the future nor affect people. Their effect on people however can be throu… - Ibn Hazm
" "That the stars are celestial bodies with no mind or soul. They neither know the future nor affect people. Their effect on people however can be through their physical characteristics, such as the effect of the sun’s heat and rays on the planets and the effect of the moon on the tides of seas.
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About Ibn Hazm
Abū Muḥammad ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd ibn Ḥazm (7 November 994 – 15 August 1064) was an Andalusian poet, polymath, historian, jurist, philosopher, and theologian, born in Córdoba, present-day Spain. He was a leading proponent and codifier of the Zahiri school of Islamic thought and produced a reported 400 works, of which only 40 still survive. The Encyclopaedia of Islam refers to him as having been one of the leading thinkers of the Muslim world, and he is widely acknowledged as the father of comparative religious studies.
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أبو مُحمَّدٍ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ سَعِيدِ بْنِ حَزْمِ بْنِ غَالِبِ بنِ صَالِحِ بن خَلَفِ بْنِ مَعْدانَ بْنِ سُفْيانَ بْنْ يَزِيدَ اَلْأَنْدَلُسِيُّ القُرْطُبِيُّهنتاي
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(His book The Decisive word on sects, heterodoxies and denominations is)The first of its genre, and it is surprising that it was written in the 11th century when nothing like it existed in Christian Europe. Ibn Hazm proceeds like a scholar and a theologian who is acquainted through his own study and experience with the religions of his time and he analyses them in detail, quoting their texts.
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