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Ibn Tufayl

Ibn Ṭufayl (full Arabic name: أبو بكر محمد بن عبد الملك بن محمد بن طفيل القيسي الأندلسي ʾAbū Bakr Muḥammad bin ʿAbd al-Malik bin Muḥammad bin Ṭufayl al-Qaysiyy al-ʾAndalusiyy; Latinized form: Abubacer Aben Tofail; Anglicized form: Abubekar or Abu Jaafar Ebn Tophail; c. 1105 – 1185) was an Arab Andalusian Muslim polymath: a writer, Islamic philosopher, Islamic theologian, physician, astronomer, and vizier.[1]

Ibn Tufayl

Ibn Tufayl
Abubacer Aben Tofail
Abu Jaafar Ebn Tophail
Avetophail

1105

Guadix, Andalusia, Almoravid dynasty

1185 (aged 79–80)

Marrakesh, Almohad Caliphate

Islam

Islamic Golden Age

Al-Andalus

Avicennism

Early Islamic philosophy, literature, kalam, Islamic medicine

Wrote the first philosophical novel, which was also the first novel to depict desert island, feral child and coming of age plots, and introduced the concepts of autodidacticism and tabula rasa

Hayy ibn Yaqdhan
(Philosophus Autodidactus)

Muslim scholar

As a philosopher and novelist, he is most famous for writing the first philosophical novel, Hayy ibn Yaqdhan (The Living Son of the Vigilant), considered a major work of Arabic literature emerging from Al-Andalus.[2] As a physician, he was an early supporter of dissection and autopsy, which was expressed in his novel.[3]

Raǧaz ṭawīl fī aṭ-Ṭibb (: رجز طويل في الطب, lit. 'Long Poem in Rajaz Metre on Medical Science'[9]): Is a long poem describing how to diagnose illnesses, and find their cures. The poem is written in the Arabic Rajaz metre. It was only found recently in the capital of Morocco, which is Rabat.[9][32]

Arabic

from Wikisource

Arabic text of Hayy bin Yaqzan

from Google Books

Full pdf of French translation of Hayy bin Yaqzan

The improvement of human reason, exhibited in the life of Hai ebn Yokdhan

List of Arab scientists and scholars

Early Islamic philosophy

Arabic literature

Autodidacticism

P. Brönnle, The Awakening of the Soul (London, 1905)

Samar Attar, The Vital Roots of European Enlightenment: Ibn Tufayl's Influence on Modern Western Thought (Lanham, 2010)

Ben-Zaken, Avner, "Taming the Mystic", in Reading Hayy Ibn-Yaqzan: A Cross-Cultural History of Autodidacticism (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011).  978-0801897399.

ISBN

Mahmud Baroud, The Shipwrecked Sailor in Arabic and Western Literature: Ibn Tufayl and His Influence on European (London, 2012)

Hayy ibn Yaqzan by Ibn Tufayl

Forcada, Miquel (2007). . In Thomas Hockey; et al. (eds.). The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. New York: Springer. p. 572. ISBN 978-0-387-31022-0. (PDF version)

"Ibn Ṭufayl: Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṭufayl al-Qaysī"

Ibn Tofail in "History of Philosophy in Islam", by T.J. de Boer, 1904, at sacred-texts.com

About Ibn Tufayl

Ibn Tufayl's view of education implicit in his work Hayy Ibn Yaqzan, by Silvio Sergio Scatolini Apostolo

at Project Gutenberg

Works by Ibn Tufayl

at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)

Works by Ibn Tufayl