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IBN TUFAIL , or ToFAIL [See also:Abu Bakr Mahommed ibn 'Abd-ul-Malik ibn Tufail ul-Qaisi] (d. 1185), Moslem philosopher, was See also:born at See also:Guadix near See also:Granada. 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.). He became secretary to the See also:governor of Granada, and later physician and See also:vizier to the. Mohad See also:caliph, Abu Ya'qub Yusuf. He died at See also:Morocco. 1 See also:Summary in E. G. See also:Browne, A See also:Literary See also:History of See also:Persia (See also:London, 1902), pp. 387 f. 2 The See also:preface was translated into See also:German by Theodor See also:Noldeke in his Beitrage (See also:Hanover, 1864), pp. 1-51.

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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.

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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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