
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 |