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Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān Arabic IDEO-IFAO transliteration scheme
حي بن يقظان Arabic
Non-literary work Discursive work
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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—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 society.
|AKid W7490 updated at 06-01-2020|