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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 223 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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IBN TUFAIL  , or ToFAIL [
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Abu Bakr Mahommed
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ibn 'Abd-ul-Malik ibn Tufail ul-Qaisi] (d . 1185), Moslem philosopher, was born at
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Guadix near Granada . There he received a good training in philosophy and
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medicine, and is said to have been a pupil of Avempace (q.v.) . He became secretary to the governor of Granada, and later physician and
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vizier to the . Mohad
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caliph, Abu Ya'qub Yusuf . He died at
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Morocco . 1
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Summary in E . G . Browne, A
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Literary
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History of
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Persia (
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London, 1902), pp . 387 f . 2 The preface was translated into German by Theodor Noldeke in his Beitrage (Hanover, 1864), pp . 1-51 .

His

chief
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work is a philosophical
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romance, in which he describes the awakening and growth of intellect in a child removed from the influences of ordinary
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life . Its Arabic title is Risalat Hayy ibn Yagzan; it was edited by E . Pococke as Philosophus autodidactus (Oxford, 1671; 2nd ed., 1700), and with a French
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translation by L . Gauthier (Algiers, 1900) . An
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English translation by S . Ockley was published in 1708 and has been reprinted since . A
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Spanish translation b} F . Pons Boigues was published at Saragossa (1900) . Another work of Ibn Tufail, the Kitab Asrar ul-Hikma ul-mashragtyya (" Secrets of Eastern Science"), was published at Bulaq (1882) ; cf . S . Munk, Melanges (1859), pp . 410 sqq., and T .

J, de

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Boer, Geschichte der Philosophie im
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Islam (
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Stuttgart, 1901), pp . 160 sqq . (also an English translation) . (G . W .

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