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Ibn Tufail was born in 1105 in Guadix, near Granada, and belonging to the Qays Arab tribe.
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The protagonist Hayy ibn Yaqzan grows up from infancy to adulthood on a uninhabited island. Essentially he is a feral or wild child. The infant Hayy is discovered and nurtured by a doe, fed on doe's milk. By presenting this prototype human being as a solitary, a social tabula rasa, Ibn Tufayl can show his reader how reason guides the human intellect naturally and that learning follows the same logical path identified by the methods of the philosophers. Moreover, the solitude of the uninhabited island is a model of the natural development of the mind in the absence of the diversions and distractions of society. (From the introduction)
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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, unaidedbut also unimpededby society, language, or tradition. Hayys 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. Goodmans commentary places Hayy Ibn Yaqzan in its historical and philosophical context. The volume features a new preface and index, and an updated bibliography. One of the most remarkable books of the Middle Ages.Times Literary Supplement An enchanting and puzzling story. . . . The book transcends all historical and cultural environments to settle upon the questions of human life that perpetually intrigue men.Middle East Journal Goodman has done a service to the modern English reader by providing a readable translation of a philosophically significant allegory.Philosophy East and West Adds bright new pieces to an Islamic mosaic whose general shape is already known.American Historical Review
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Hayy ibn Yaqzan crece en una isla desierta cuidado por una gacela, como un animal más. Aunque pronto descubre la fuerza de su intelecto, que le permite compensar sus desventajas físicas en un entorno salvaje. Mediante la reflexión, Hayy asciende por sí mismo del conocimiento empírico al científico y de este al místico. Ya adulto, conoce a Asal, que se había trasladado a la isla para dedicarse a la contemplación, y le enseña el lenguaje, la civilización y la religión. La presente edición incluye una Introducción de Marcelino Rodríguez Donís. Incorpora, además, las introducciones históricas de Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo de 1900, Ángel González Palencia de 1948 (autor también de la traducción) y Emilio Tornero Poveda de 1995, junto con las ilustraciones de la edición inglesa de Ockley de 1708.
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Ibn Tufail was born in 1105 in Guadix, near Granada, and belonging to the Qays Arab tribe.
He was educated by Ibn Bajjah (Avempace). He was trained as a physician but also followed the career of a government functionary, serving as secretary to the governors of Granada, and later of Ceuta and Tangier in North Africa (1154).
Ultimately, he became court physician to the Almohad sultan Abu Yaqub Yusuf, who ruled in Marrakesh from 1163 to 1184.
Ibn Tufayl used his considerable influence at court to forward the career of the young Averroës; the Sultan seems to have taken a lively interest in philosophy, and Averroës wrote his commentary on Aristotle at the Almohad court, encouraged by Ibn Tufayl. After the latter's retirement as court physician, Averroës took his place. Ibn Tufayl died in Marrakesh.
Little of Ibn Tufayl's work has survived except for Hayy Ibn Yaqzan, whose title means "Alive, Son of Awake, " although medieval Arabic bibliographies credit him with an additional two books on medicine and some writings on astronomy. The title is borrowed from Avicenna, but the ideas put forward in Ibn Tufayl's work are quite contrary to Avicenna's.
The setting of the narrative is an island in the Indian Ocean, inhabited solely by a youth named Hayy, who grew up there quite alone, suckled as a child only by a gazelle, and completely cut off from humanity. Despite this cultural deprivation, Hayy stays alive and even thinks through and evolves a system of philosophy and metaphysics of the most refined order. Through fasting and meditation, moreover, he seeks and attains mystical experiences.
IbnTufayl then introduces into the narrative a devout man named Asal, from a neighboring island, who is seeking an uninhabited retreat from the world. He meets Hayy, teaches him to speak, and is astonished to find that the natural youth has evolved—all untaught—a system comparable but superior to Asal's own philosophy.
Hayy and Asal return to civilization, determined that Hayy's aperçus will be shared with mankind. The attempt fails, however, and the two philosophers return to the desert island and leave the common people to the undisturbing practice of their ancestral religion.
Translated into Latin in 1671, Ibn Tufayl's work has evoked interesting speculations. Translations into English and European languages soon followed, and it has been suggested that Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, which was published in 1719, may have been inspired by the English translation of 1708. The interpretations of scholars of the meaning of the allegory have varied greatly, although all agree, at least, that it is a tour de force intended to show the almost limitless capabilities of the human intellect.
Ibn Tufayl died several years later in Morocco in 1185.
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