İbn Hazm'ın Gâliyye'ye (İtidal Çizgisini Aşanlara) Eleştirisi Üzerine

Ibn Hazm takes care of the social, geographical environments where the extremist groups (ghulât) flourished. Thus, he discusses the places where the extremist groups appeared most extensively. Above all, he should have regarded the formation of the Islamic sects a sociological fact that he gives information, unlike other heresiographical works, about the regions where the sects considered outside Islam lived most intensively. According to Ibn Hazm, the groups deserving to be called ghulat had come out within Persian people, since the Shiism which gained prevalence primarily in Iran and Iraq as well as Southeast Asia developed within the Greek, Persian and Indian climate of culture. In this connection, the Ghaliya is divided into two. 'The first one comprised those who required the advent of another prophet after the Prophet Muhammad. The second group was consisting of those holding, aside from God, the divinity of another being. In İbn Hazm’s opinion, the latter joint with Jews and Christians and went down a beastly infidelity