Hayy Ibn Yaqzan (Tufayl - paperback)

Author: Ibn Tufayl

ISBN: 9780226303109

Binding: paperback

Section: Philosophy/Rhetoric/Logic

The Arabic philosophical fable Hayy Ibn Yaqzan is a classic of medieval Islamic philosophy. Ibn Tufayl (d. 1185), the Andalusian philosopher, tells of a child raised by a doe on an equatorial island who grows up to discover the truth about the world and his own place in it, unaided — but also unimpeded — by society, language, or tradition. Hayy’s discoveries about God, nature, and man challenge the values of the culture in which the tale was written as well as those of every contemporary society.