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Book/Printed Material The Philosophy of ibn Tufail and His Treatise the Self-Taught Philosopher.

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Title

  • The Philosophy of ibn Tufail and His Treatise the Self-Taught Philosopher.

Summary

  • Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Tufail (also known by a Latinized version of his name, Abubacer Aben Tofail, 1105--85 AD) was an Andalusian Muslim polymath who was born near Granada, Spain, and died in Morocco. Apart from fragments of poetry, Hayy ibn Yaqzan (Alive, son of awake), also called Philosophus Autodidactus (The self-taught philosopher), is his only surviving work. Considered the first philosophical novel, it is often seen as an earlier Arabic version of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. The book had much influence in the West. It takes place on an isolated and uninhabited island, where the orphaned Hayy is suckled by a deer and comes to manhood, reason, and an understanding of science and religious truth.

Names

  • Ibn Ṭufayl, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Malik, -1185.
  • Maḥmūd, ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm, author.

Created / Published

  • Cairo : The Anglo Egyptian Bookshop, [1900 to 2000]

Headings

  • -  Spain
  • -  Morocco
  • -  1100 to 1185
  • -  Arabic literature
  • -  Hayy ibn Yaqdhan
  • -  Ibn Ṭufayl, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Malik, died 1185
  • -  Islamic philosophy

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 131 pages.
  • -  Original resource at: Bibliotheca Alexandrina.
  • -  Content in Arabic.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Source Collection

  • Arabic and Islamic Science and Its Influence on the Western Scientific Tradition: Mathematics

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  • 2021666166

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Chicago citation style:

Ibn Ṭufayl, Muḥammad Ibn ʻAbd Al-Malik, -1185, and ʻAbd Al-Ḥalīm Maḥmūd. The Philosophy of ibn Tufail and His Treatise the Self-Taught Philosopher. [Cairo: The Anglo Egyptian Bookshop, to 2000, 1900] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666166/.

APA citation style:

Ibn Ṭufayl, M. I. ʻ. A. & Maḥmūd, ʻ. A. (1900) The Philosophy of ibn Tufail and His Treatise the Self-Taught Philosopher. [Cairo: The Anglo Egyptian Bookshop, to 2000] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666166/.

MLA citation style:

Ibn Ṭufayl, Muḥammad Ibn ʻAbd Al-Malik, -1185, and ʻAbd Al-Ḥalīm Maḥmūd. The Philosophy of ibn Tufail and His Treatise the Self-Taught Philosopher. [Cairo: The Anglo Egyptian Bookshop, to 2000, 1900] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021666166/>.