Ibn Tufayl Abubacer Aben Tofail Abu Jaafar Ebn Tophail Avetophail
Personal
Born
1105
Guadix, Andalusia, Almoravid dynasty
Died
1185 (aged 79–80)
Marrakesh, Almohad Caliphate
Religion
Islam
Era
Islamic Golden Age
Region
Al-Andalus
Creed
Avicennism
Main interest(s)
Early Islamic philosophy, literature, kalam, Islamic medicine
Notable idea(s)
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
Notable work(s)
Hayy ibn Yaqdhan (Philosophus Autodidactus)
Occupation
Muslim scholar
Muslim leader
Influenced by
Plato, Aristotle, Al-Farabi, Avicenna, Avicennism, Ibn Tumart, Ibn Bajjah, Abu Yaqub Yusuf, Muhammad
Influenced
Averroes, Alpetragius, Ibn al-Nafis
Ibn Ṭufayl (full Arabic name: أبو بكر محمد بن عبد الملك بن محمد بن طفيل القيسي الأندلسيʾAbū 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]
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]
^Avempace, Encyclopædia Britannica, 2007.
^Stearns, Peter N. "Arabic Language and Literature." In The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World. Oxford University Press, 2008.
^Jon Mcginnis, Classical Arabic Philosophy: An Anthology of Sources, p. 284, Hackett Publishing Company, ISBN 0-87220-871-0.
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