Hayy Ibn Yaqzan (Tufayl - paperback)
Hayy Ibn Yaqzan (Tufayl - paperback)
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Author: Ibn Tufayl
ISBN: 9780226303109
Binding: paperback
Section: Philosophy
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.