The Improvement of Human Reason, Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan
Ibn Tufail · tr. Simon Ockley · 12th century (tr. 1708) · 42,800 words
The philosophical tale of Hayy ibn Yaqzan, a child raised alone on an island who rises by reason and contemplation alone to the knowledge of God and the mystic vision.
Opening
Ibn Tufail
(Abu Bakr Muhammad Ibn Tufail al-Qasi)
Newly Translated from the Original Arabick by Simon Ockley
(1708)
The Improvement of
HUMAN REASON,
Exhibited in the LIFE of
Hai Ebn Yokdhan:
Written in Arabick above 500 Years ago, by Abu Jaafar Ebn Tophail.
In which is demonstrated,
By what Methods one may, by the meer
Light of Nature, attain the Knowledg
of things Natural and Supernatural;
more particularly the Knowledg of God,
and the Affairs of another Life.
Illustrated with proper FIGURES,
Newly Translated from the Original Arabick by
SIMON OCKLEY,
A.M. Vicar of Swanesey in Cambridgshire.
With an APPENDIX,
In Which the Possibility of Man's attaining
the True Knowledg of GOD, and
Things necessary to Salvation, without
Instruction, is briefly consider'd.
To the Reverend
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Contents
- Ibn Tufail
- Mr. Edward Pococke
- The Preface
- The Bookseller to the Reader
- Introduction · To the Life of · Hai Ebn Yokdhan
- The History of Hai Ebn Yokdhan (part 1)
- The History of Hai Ebn Yokdhan (part 2)
- The History of Hai Ebn Yokdhan (part 3)
- The Contents
- Appendix, &