Ibn Tufayl

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Ibn Tufayl was a 12th-century Andalusian Arab philosopher, physician, and novelist best known for his philosophical tale "Hayy ibn Yaqzan," which explored reason, revelation, and human nature.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Andalusian philosopher
Arab philosopher
Islamic philosopher
human
novelist
philosopher
physician
advisorTo Abu Yaqub Yusuf
authorOf Hayy ibn Yaqzan
birthDate c. 1105
century 12th century
deathDate 1185
employer Almohad dynasty
surface form: Almohad Caliphate
ethnicGroup Arabs
surface form: Arab
fieldOfWork astronomy
literature
medicine
philosophy
fullName Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṭufayl al-Qaysī
genre philosophical novel
givenName Muhammad
surface form: Muḥammad
influenced Averroes
Daniel Defoe
European Enlightenment thinkers
John Locke
influencedBy Al-Farabi
Aristotle
Avicenna
kunya Abu Bakr al-Siddiq
surface form: Abū Bakr
language Arabic
mainWork Hayy ibn Yaqzan
movement Western Islamic philosophy
name Ibn Tufayl self-link
notableIdea harmony of reason and revelation
natural human capacity to know God through reason
use of philosophical fiction to explore epistemology
notableStudent Averroes
occupation court physician
vizier
philosophicalTradition Islamic philosophy
Peripatetic philosophy
placeOfBirth Guadix
Andalusia
surface form: al-Andalus

near Granada
placeOfDeath Almohad dynasty
surface form: Almohad Caliphate

Marrakesh
positionHeld physician to the Almohad caliph Abu Yaqub Yusuf
region Andalusia
surface form: al-Andalus
religion Islam
workSubject epistemology
human nature
mysticism
reason
revelation

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Almohad dynasty notableFigure Ibn Tufayl
Islamic West notableScholar Ibn Tufayl
Ibn Tufayl name Ibn Tufayl self-link
Abu Yaqub Yusuf patronOf Ibn Tufayl