Ibn Tufayl's Hayy Ibn Yaqzan: A Philosophical Tale

Book Summary


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

Book Details


Book Name Ibn Tufayl's Hayy Ibn Yaqzan: A Philosophical Tale
Author Lenn Evan Goodman
Publisher University Of Chicago Press (Nov 2009)
ISBN 9780226303109
Pages 260
Language English
Price 619
 
 

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