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<p>The Arabic philosophical fable <i>Hayy Ibn Yaqzan</i> 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 s

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Author

Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Malik Ibn Ṭufayl

Publisher

University of Chicago Press ; University Presses Marketing [distributor

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226303093

Category

religious

Subjects

Fiction, Religion, Philosophy

Rating

3.78 / 5 (74 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13