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See also:IBN TUFAIL
, or ToFAIL [See also:Abu Bakr Mahommed See also:ibn 'Abd-ul-Malik ibn Tufail ul-Qaisi] (d
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1185), Moslem philosopher, was See also:born at See also:Guadix near See also:Granada
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There he received a See also:good training in See also:philosophy and See also:medicine, and is said to have been a See also:pupil of See also:Avempace (q.v.)
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He became secretary to the See also:governor of Granada, and later physician and See also:vizier to the
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Mohad See also:caliph, Abu Ya'qub Yusuf
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He died at See also:Morocco
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See also: His See also:chief See also:work is a philosophical See also:romance, in which he describes the awakening and growth of See also:intellect in a See also:child removed from the influences of See also:ordinary See also:life . Its Arabic See also:title is Risalat Hayy ibn Yagzan; it was edited by E . See also:Pococke as Philosophus autodidactus (See also:Oxford, 1671; 2nd ed., 1700), and with a See also:French See also:translation by L . Gauthier (See also:Algiers, 1900) . An See also:English translation by S . See also:Ockley was published in 1708 and has been reprinted since . A See also:Spanish translation b} F . Pons Boigues was published at See also:Saragossa (1900) . Another work of Ibn Tufail, the Kitab Asrar ul-Hikma ul-mashragtyya (" Secrets of Eastern See also:Science"), was published at Bulaq (1882) ; cf . S . Munk, Melanges (1859), pp . 410 sqq., and T . J, de See also:Boer, Geschichte der Philosophie See also:im See also:Islam (See also:Stuttgart, 1901), pp . 160 sqq . (also an English translation) . (G . W . |
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