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Ibn Tufayl served as the secretary of the Almohad governor of Granada, and later as the secretary of the Almohad governor of Ceuta and Tangiers (Abū Saʿīd ʿUthmān, one of 'Abd al-Mu'min 's sons). Eventually, Ibn Tufayl moved to the service of Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf, who was a prince at the time and later became the second Almohad caliph.
- Hayy ibn Yaqdhan
Hayy ibn Yaqdhan is an allegorical novel in which Ibn Tufail...
- Tufayl ibn Amr
In the Battle of Yamama, Tufayl ibn Amr fell as a martyr. It...
- Hayy ibn Yaqdhan
Ibn Tufayl or Ibn Tufail (c.1105 – 1185), full name: Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Muhammad ibn Tufail al-Qaisi al-Andalusi أبو بكر محمد بن عبد الملك بن محمد بن طفيل القيسي الأندلسي (Latinised form: Abubacer ), was an Andalusian Arab Muslim philosopher, physician, and court official. He ...
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May 21, 2018 · Ibn Tufayl is best known for his philosophical book Hayy ibn Yaqzān (“The Living, Son of the Wakeful”). After a valuable introduction surveying the rise of philosophy in western Islam, the author presents Neoplatonic philosophy in the form of a myth. Hayy is a boy born on a desert island and reared by a doe.
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 ...
Mar 26, 2019 · Ibn Tufayl, a 12th-century Andalusian, fashioned the feral child in philosophy. His story Hayy ibn Yaqzan is the tale of a child raised by a doe on an unnamed Indian Ocean island. Hayy ibn Yaqzan (literally ‘Living Son of Awakeness’) reaches a state of perfect, ecstatic understanding of the world. A meditation on the possibilities (and ...
